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"Inspirational" - The Daily Mail "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 Hytner Suffering 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.
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