Stillness Between Words

I started something new today. While people were expressing themselves with words today, I payed as much attention to the silent stillness between the words as much as the content. It was an amazing realization for me. It made me relax into what was being said....as well as what wasn't. The stillness came to mean as much as the content, if not more. Actually, I found myself hanging on the edge of every silence instead of every word. I realized that is was then that I was most present.