Would you describe your life as noise, or music?

Silence is on the endangered experiences list.

Today, if you’re like most people, you’ll spend 11 hours in front of screens …

Interact with your phone more than 2,000 times …

And encounter just as many commercial messages.

Silence will hardly show up at all.

But it doesn’t need to be this way.

Rediscovering the 7 healthy uses of silence can be transformative: the gifts of listening, canvas, answer, anticipation, respect, rest, and wonder.

From the anechoic chamber in Microsoft’s headquarters to the 36 questions that bring people closer together, from John Cage’s “4 minutes and 33 seconds” of silence to Yom HaShoah and Get Out’s the sunken place, this book is an adventure in search of an answer: How can we find ourselves again in silence?

Do you know the only difference between noise and music? It’s whether the pattern between sound and silence is meaningful, or meaningless.

The same is true of your life.

Rediscovering Silence was written so you can begin to create a meaningful rhythm between sound and silence in your life, a rhythm that transforms your life more into the music it’s meant to be.

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