The Christian discipline of regularly withdrawing from the noise, activity, and company of daily life for deliberate periods of silence and solitude before the LORD. The biblical patterns are rich. The Lord Jesus's pattern was substantial: he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed (Luke 5:16; Mark 1:35; Matthew 14:23, He went up into a mountain apart to pray after feeding the five thousand). Elijah retreated to Horeb in his crisis and met the LORD in the still small voice (1 Kings 19:9-13). The prophets' wilderness experiences (Elijah, John the Baptist); Paul's three years in Arabia after his Damascus conversion (Galatians 1:17-18); the patriarchs' solitude (Isaac meditating in the field at the eventide, Genesis 24:63); the psalmists' solitary times (Psalm 4, the meditation in the night season). The discipline is integrated with the means of grace, not opposed to corporate worship: regular solitude supplements rather than replaces the gathered church. The patriarchal-Reformed reader recovers silence and solitude as substantive discipline against the modern saturation of life with noise, activity, and constant digital connection. The practice involves deliberate withdrawal (a quiet room, a solitary walk, a retreat to a cabin or wilderness) for a meaningful period (an hour, a half-day, an occasional day or weekend), with the time spent in prayer, Scripture meditation, examination of the heart, intercession, and listening for the LORD. The contemplative monastic-Catholic tradition has its excesses (silence as merit, solitude as withdrawal from creation, mystical apophatic theology). The Reformed-Puritan tradition retains the practice in a sober biblical register: solitude for substantive prayer and Scripture meditation; silence for the receiving of the LORD's word in the heart; integration with gathered worship and active life.