Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
The ordinary acts we practice everyday at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
We call a moment of silence an observance. How appropriate. It is a nod to something deep within ourselves that we touch only briefly and then shy away from, perhaps out of discomfort or pure unfamiliarity. It is a bearing witness. In that bearing witness, we not only bear our burden better, but we demonstrate that we are larger than it is, that we have the capacity to hold it, to honor it, and to make a context for it and for ourselves, and so grow beyond it without ever forgetting.