In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how.
Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control.
Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practising silence.
Ranging from Christian contemplation in the Egyptian desert to Vipassana meditation in India, from the shared silence of Quaker meetings in Oxford to the profound stillness of the Alps, this is a powerful book about a great gap in modern human awareness.
Autorentext
After gaining a first class degree at Oxford, Graham Turner worked for The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. He then became nationally recognised as the BBC's first Economics Correspondent. Thereafter he worked for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as a features writer.
Inhalt
Preface
1. Silence? No Thanks!
2. India: Silence in the genes
3. Holy Men - and Women
4. No Words, Please
5. A Chance to Hear Yourself
6. Silences which Speak
7. Opting for the Quiet Life
8. Letting Go
9. The Silence of the Mountains
10. A Shared Silence
11. Better than Bullets
12. The Rigours of Zen
13 The Prisoner's Tale
14. Desert Fathers
15. The Power in Silence