The Interior Silence

10 Lessons from Monastic Life

The Interior Silence
Sarah Sands
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h198 x 129mm - 256pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781780725437
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"Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace is a balm for our troubled times. I loved every page of it. " - Nicholas HytnerSuffering from information overload, unable to sleep, Sarah Sands, former editor of the BBC' s Today programme, has tried many different strategies to de-stress. . . only to reject them because, as she says, all too often they threaten to become an exercise in self-absorption. Inspired by the ruins of an ancient Cistercian abbey at the bottom of her Norfolk garden, she begins to research the lives of the monks who once resided there, and realises how much we may have to learn from monasticism. Renouncing the world, monks and nuns have acquired a hidden knowledge of how to live: they labour, they learn and they acquire ' the interior silence' . This book is a quest for that hidden knowledge - a pilgrimage to ten monasteries round the world. From a Coptic desert community in Egypt to a retreat in the Japanese mountains, we follow Sands as she identifies the common characteristics of monastic life and the wisdoms to be learned from them; and as she discovers, behind the cloistered walls, a clarity of mind and an unexpected capacity for solitude which enable her, after years of insomnia, to experience that elusive, dreamless sleep.
This is a book which goes beyond history to the needs of human nature. It is a balm for our times. -- Elizabeth Adekunle, Archdeacon of Hackney What a fascinating journey, from the cauldron of news to the peace of monasteries. -- Alice Thomson I loved the mix of far-off destinations and the spiritual journey. This is a brilliant book for our times. -- Melanie Mcdonagh Gripping. . . witty. . . poignant, and a fable of our times. -- Dan Hitchens * UnHerd *
Sarah Sands is is a journalist and author. A former editor of the London Evening Standard, she was editor of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 from 2017 to September 2020.
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ISBN-13: 9781780725437
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Short Books
Publisher: Short Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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