Teach me the power and strength of silence
that I may go into the world
as still as a mouse
in the depths of my heart.
~ Mechtild of Magdeburg
The worship of the Great Mystery was silent, solitary, free from all self-seeking. It was silent because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect ... it was solitary, because the people believed that the Great Spirit is nearer to us in solitude, and that no one was authorized to come between an individual and the Creator. Among us, all were conscious of their divinity.