LEARNING FROM SILENCE

Beautiful Iyer masterfully and lyrically shows us how we may need to find a new home one far more solemn communal and silent than our present one in order to return properly to ourselves Alain de Botton I trust that reading this book may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind His Holiness the Dalai Lama One of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time Maria Popova An exquisite call to silence and the myriad connections it kindles Katherine May I urge everyone to read Pico Iyer s beautifully written meditative book Learning from Silence As I turned to this I felt my blood pressure reducing and I began to read in a different slower and more concentrated way Jane Shaw Financial Times From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat Over the past three decades Pico Iyer has made more than a hundred journeys to a small hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur California He s not a Christian nor a member of any religious group and yet his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence In Learning from Silence Iyer travels deep into inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the m