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Posted on April 20, 2019April 15, 2019

“When I landed in the republic of conscience / it was so noiseless when the engines stopped./ I could hear a curlew high above the runway.”

From the Republic of Conscience was written by Seamus Heaney in 1985 at the request of Mary Lawlor, then head of Amnesty International in Ireland. While I find it perhaps…

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Posted on December 6, 2018December 6, 2018

The demands of silence

On of the recurrent themes of this blog has been various writings – by others, by myself – on silence. Of course, all this verbal activity on silence carries with…

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Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

What poets, monks and nuns know about silence

Originally posted on Tracy Rittmueller:
Poets live with silence:  the silence before the poem;  the silence when the poem comes; the silence in between the words, as you drink the…

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Posted on November 5, 2018

“silence is not sought for its own sake but, rather, for the space it makes.”

  From The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, Cardinal Robert Sarah and Nicolas Diat:   Silence for us is a form of asceticism and a desire. Asceticism…

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Posted on November 2, 2018

“silence is open to everyone, literate or illiterate, king or slave, secular or religious, saint or sinner.” from “Silence: A User’s Guide”, Maggie Ross on the work of silence

Having come across her repeatedly in the work of Adam deVille, I am gradually absorbing Maggie Ross’ “Silence: A User’s Guide” There are all too many extracts I would love to share.…

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Posted on October 17, 2018

A silent Inferno from 1911 – “arguably the first ever blockbuster

 Via the the twitter account of Ewan Morrison, I came across this gem. The oldest existing feature length film is none other than a 1911 silent version of Dante’s Inferno…

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Posted on September 6, 2018

Hesychia – “the rest which flows from unceasing prayer”

I previously posted an extract from Alasdair McIntyre’s After Virtue on “hesuchia” – the rest that follows striving. I came across this from Henri Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart…

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Posted on September 4, 2018

“silence of the heart is much more important than silence of the mouth”

From Henri Nouwen’s The Way of The Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers These examples of silence in preaching, counseling, and organizing are meant to illustrate how…

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