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  • Silence

  • The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
  • By: Thích Nhất Hạnh
  • Narrated by: Dan Woren
  • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (127 ratings)

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Silence

By: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Narrated by: Dan Woren
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Summary

We can spend a lot of time looking for happiness when the world right around us is full of wonder. But our hearts and minds are so full of noise that we can't always hear the call of life and love. To hear that call and respond to it, we need silence.

In his beautiful new book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how mindfulness is the practice that stops the noise inside. With gentle anecdotes, simple Buddhist wisdom and practical exercises, he shows us how to live mindfully so that all the internal chatter ceases and we are left with the eloquent sound of silence.

Now, at last, we can answer the call of the beauty around us. Through silence, Thich Nhat Hanh reveals, we are free to hear, to see - and just be.

©2015 Unified Buddhist Church, Inc. (P)2015 Harper Audio 2015, published in the UK Random House Audiobooks
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Highly recommended

One of the best Buddhist teachers alive shares his incredible wisdom for finding inner peace and space in our frantic, fragmented digital world.

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a good introduction to silence

I am researching the merits of silence and reading different religious and philosophical perspectives. This is a good well written book, well narrated but read a little too quickly.

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A really necessary read

This audible book as helped me in so many ways I have listened to it several times for more clarity. Highly recommended if you are struggling with issues with communication.

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The simplicity of silence

A beautifully narrated book engaging in the simpleness of silence and achieving pockets of silence in day to day living.

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Peaceful

Simple and beautiful... lovely meaningful meditations included. This book allows you to just be. Thankyou.

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Good book

It would be better if there is a tiny pause in between sentences and chapters to assimilate the information.

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I loved it! highly recommended! easy to understand

I will read this book again! very interesting and lively. it is a short but sweet book worth reading every time we need to reconnect.

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Read and reconnect with yourself

Brought back the peace to my life. Seemed that I was not reading anything new that I had’t know before and yet the book brought back me to myself

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amazing knowledge

listen already twice, something for us all to meditate within. highly recommended his insights are very deep every time I listen I understand more about myself.thank you very much.

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Speed was too fast

I wish this book would have been read slightly slower, at the pace Thich Nhat Hanh reads his own books himself.

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