Across centuries and continents, the most profound spiritual encounters seem to happen not in the sermon or the chant, but in the pause between them — in a cave on Mount Hira, a Quaker meetinghouse, a Zen garden raked at first light. Tonight we explore why so many traditions treat silence not as the absence of the sacred, but as its mother tongue. From Elijah's 'still small voice' to the wordless transmission of the forest monks, we listen together to what silence has always been trying to say.