Now we're getting there. Perhaps it's only in silence that we can truly intuit meaning, and it's this that leads to the heart or the emotional response. A word is just a sound, and remains only that when we hear with a closed mind.

It can on the other hand in the right circumstances trigger such a depth of emotion and knowing.

You've all I'm sure heard of the the 'ah ha' moment. Of the way that a beautiful vista (classically cresting a mountain ridge to look down into a very pretty valley) can lead to our resting entirely in the moment. The intellect is stopped - is left unable to judge, comment or otherwise dismiss what's in front of it, and in the resulting silence there's nothing but the unimpeded direct experience of its 'isness'.   

Its beauty, its godliness, its aliveness, it's magic as a system supporting all forms of life, and our connection with everything can shift in this silence from (if it comes into awareness at all) an intellectual concept to something we truly experience and know.

A mind dominated by intellect and conceptual thought may in that situation see and feel nothing from the heart side - but perhaps be dominated only by the thought that here's a money making opportunity in the form of a forest and it's inhabitants ready to be exploited. Or more simply by the thought 'bloody hell, another tend miles to walk'.

This is the eye of the needle, the issue we all struggle with throughout life. We become so pre-occupied with our self interested intellectual machinations and internal dialogue (our reality tunnels) that our ability to connect with the heart, the big picture and the goodness of life is obscured. 

It perhaps illustrates the importance of bringing space and silence in our lives through meditation, prayer, practice of mindfulness and the like, and the utter futility of seeking spiritual progress through idle (if absorbing) chatter and by solely intellectual means.....