Last night I was awake for some time in the middle of the night. And is so often the case thoughts came flooding through my mind one after another. Making the prospect of a short period of wakefulness increasingly impossible.
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Our world is a cacophony of noise. From the moment that we wake until we finally drift off to sleep at night, we are bombarded by sound. Furthermore, our lives are filled with demands, requests, deadlines and expectations. We are complicated, self-obsessed, and selfish – so often driven by desire. And the world and culture that we find ourselves in simply pours fuel on the fire. How are we, in the midst of all this, to cultivate a life and an attitude of quiet?
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