In our always-on digital era it’s all too easy to disconnect ourselves from peace and quiet,and the inner wealth it can bringWhenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail absent from the world, or I enjoy learned to shut it out.
Learning this took time. Only when I understood that I had a primal need for silence was I able to originate my search for it – and there,deep beneath a cacophony of traffic noise and thoughts, music and machinery, and iPhones and snow ploughs,it lay in wait for me. Silence. Related: Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence We are going to give up our own freedom in our eagerness to use new technology, Heidegger claimed Related: How two minutes of mindfulness can unexcited a lesson and boost attainment Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com