Learning From Silence Gift books and the transition from seeing

and the transition from seeing the stars as characters to understanding them as spinning

what can be done about it

Told with devastating honesty

From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses

'Sleeping on Islands' is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of a remarkable career

Learning From Silence Gift books and the transition from seeingPico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He's not a Christian or a member of any religious group but his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence. That silence reminds him of what is essential and awakens a joy that nothing can efface. It's not just freedom from distraction and noise and rush: it's a reminder of