The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort, thanks to Barb Yatsevich
To open to the sense, to become really conscious, you have to drop out of the future and the past and remain for a time in what T. S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world" — the present. The only true reality is the present.