The Act of Silence

silence in art :

silence in music: the pause
Mozart: The greatest music is no music.
Mozart used the grand pause to great effect.

Varese,

Sibelius
“The gestation of the [8th] symphony may have been long and troubled, but Sibelius had, at various times, referred to his manuscript as ‘brilliant,’ ‘a great work in the making,’ a piece that would have been ‘the reckoning of [his] whole existence.’ For so long, he had had but one desire: to finish the piece before drifting off ‘to the final silence.’ Why, then, did Sibelius destroy such a highly anticipated and promising work? This remains one of the most perplexing questions in all of music history.” --from www.artsjournal.com/2016/03

silence in writing:
There are three types of silence, a writer's block, a recalcitrant protest against writing and finally perhaps a nihilist absurdity of writing into the deluge of online scribbles: the "Age of the Fueilleton" has dawned - the blogosphere is here.

silence in philosophy:
Speech is silver, but silence is golden
Socrates, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein all have made contributions to this topic.

silence in the mind: meditation, breathe.

silence of the end:
Since this piece is made in silence, it will fade into itself. An interesting

Protecting Nonviolence

While Glederloos countered nonviolence as a tactic of cowardice  (reference needed) it can be countered on three terms. First one needs valiance to counter a stronger force of weaponry and militant power. Secondly one who wields nonviolence cannot renounce violence if there is no possibility to resort to violence (Gandhi). Thirdly, the foolhardiness of irresponsible use of force against another power always comes to reap a mindless sacrifice on humanity with the dishonorable gamble to win quickly.
As a conclusion one cannot see into the emotional life of an activist, but only cowardice on the field of historical, political and economic life is the reluctance to use nonviolence consistently and the ignorance in developing ever new methods of nonviolent resistance when all but the violent methods have been exhausted as viable political recourses.

Motherly philosophy, Fatherly philosophy

Philosophical discourse and development towards its aim, be it truth, progress or power or other goals always have the opponent and the proponent sides for every thesis.
Another view would be to see a fatherly side that guards and attacks the opponents both in prophylactic and preemptive strikes as well as countering moves after the theory has been challenged.
In opposition there would be the motherly side that grows and nurtures the theory. Communication patterns are different between the theory and the two methods of development.
Both sides are necessary for the development and utilisation of the theory.
The theory itself is the existential child of the two processes, the motherly and the fatherly.