Thursday, July 4, 2013

July 5 Tip: Listen to "The Last Quiet Places"

From "On Being": Listen to The Last Quiet Places
(the July 5 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/last-quiet-places/4557/audio?embed=1

Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.


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