# Learning from Silence

**From the bestselling author of _The Art of Stillness_, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat**  
  
  
Over the past three decades, Pico Iyer has made more than a hundred journeys to a small hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He's not a Christian, nor a member of any religious group, and yet his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence.  
  
In _Learning from Silence_, Iyer travels deep into inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the monastery, even as his life is going through constant change: houses burn, a parent dies, a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. He shares the revelations he experiences, alongside wisdom from other non-monastics who have learned from adversity and inwardness. Most profoundly, he shows how solitude can be a training in community and companionship.  
  
In so doing, he offers a unique outsider's view of monastic life - and of a group of selfless souls who have dedicated their days to ensuring there's a space for quiet and recollection that's open to us all.  
  
Radiant, intimate and gripping, _Learning from Silence_ offers ageless counsel about the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live, how to love and, ultimately, how to die.

## Details

- **Price:** 19.72 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Books, Limited
- **Type:** Unknown Author,Pico Iyer
- **Tags:** All Books, Main Non-Fiction, Self Help

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