Quaker silence is apophatic and has more in common with late medieval mystics such as Meister Eckhart and John Ruysbroeck.
Evidence
Silence in Quaker Tradition (Hermitary)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Silence is a positive, self-contained reality rather than mere absence. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 19