As the years passed, I had a growing desire to share the immense peace and strength I have drawn from this practice, as well as to convey to others how they can bring an ancient practice into a harried, modern world. The book is part memoir and part reflection and in it I explore the many facets of stillness including the soul’s yearning for quiet, the ego’s resistance to it, the intrusion of society, the lessons silence holds and the healing it can effect. Finally I look at ways in which we can incorporate periods of silence in our lives. SILENCE will be published by HarperCollins in 2008