Listening & Silence

The journalist and author Graham Turner writes about ‘the riches that lie within’ through 'The Power of Silence' - the title of his book published in 2012. In the book, 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.