Power of Silence
The Riches That Lie Within
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Hardback
£16.99
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781441182234
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 25/10/2012
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
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.