Posts on the broad theme of silence.
“silence is not sought for its own sake but, rather, for the space it makes.”
What poets, monks and nuns know about silence
“silence of the heart is much more important than silence of the mouth”
Silence and the limits of language
“Silence is not the contrary of the Word but its guardian” – reflects on a passage in George Steiner’s “The Portage to San Cristobal of AH”
“The silent are never at home in our culture again” – from Adam de Ville’s blog
Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence, and the Philosophy of Silence
Silence – A Fragment. Nthposition, March 2013
Silence in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”
from “Small, Silent, Still” – Fr Paul D Scalia
Robert Sardello on the many types of Silence
Marie Thompson on noise, “the conservative politics of silence”, and soundscapes
A note on whales and silence from The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
The wisdom of silence (an extract from a blog post by Adam de Ville)
Josef Pieper on silence and leisure
Thoughts on Silence From Augustinian Abbey, Fethard, Tipperary
From “The Book of Silences” Introduction to Volume 1
“A leader for whom silence was a virtue” – Sudhit Hazareesingh on Charles de Gaulle