"Sometimes, silence is golden."
'Sometimes'?
"In order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollected in God."  Diary of St. Faustina
I used to pray 'Centering Prayer' which is a good tool to increase an interior silence.
It just this clergy sex abuse of children, I am so upset that I sort of reduced the practice of it very much!