The friendship that transpires is a kind of nothing – a brief period of talking, laughing, sharing silences – which has the potential to be life-changing; its unacknowledged longing made all the more poignant by the knowledge that neither will ever know of the other's subsequent diversions.
After conversations and sharing silences, I earn their trust and that is when I am accepted by them.
But it was a comfortable, shared silence as we both contemplated the long, difficult road he had traveled alone.
"The sense of creating warmth, both symbolically and literally, to share conversation, to share food, to share silence, is essential to the Norwegian identity," he said in an interview.
I remembered the shared silence among the people sitting around me, and what it meant — the realization that America's blessing was needed for all Egypt's dealings with the world.
The first is designed to detect periods of shared silence between spike trains, while the second is designed to emphasize the presence of common bursts.
Aminatta Forna, of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage, is an award-winning author whose books explore the topics of betrayal, shared silence, love and loss.
Mostly, they share silence.
Shared silence can allow a group to reflect together on what has been lost, and on what is still well within their grasp.
On the fifth night of last week's retreat, as we gathered in deep, shared silence in the magnificence of the Spirit Rock meditation hall, our teacher read softly from a New York Times piece by author Robert Wright (The Moral Animal and, most recently, The Evolution of God).
