" Is there not a silent dialogue between a mother and the child whom she bears? Sometimes she speaks to him, maybe she has already given him a name, but most often she simply feels him. I remember, during one annual visit of my family to the monastery, my sister was pregnant, and suddenly, in the middle of a conversation, she smiled a beautiful smile. Since the context did not explain it, I asked her: “Irene, why are you smiling?” She then answered me: “He is moving.” It was not necessary to ask who “he” was. I like this image of the pregnant woman because it nicely illustrates the question of interiority. There is no need for a lot of words; “he” is there, that is enough. When “he” means God, prayer is near, because adoration and silence are brother and sister. "

― Robert Sarah , The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise