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Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

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Each time I open this book I relax and receive more unspeakable beauty. I am so thankful for this awareness and ode to something so precious and threatened as silence. As we awaken to the unimaginable cost of the industrial and technical ages and our disconnection from nature, both inner and outer, we may return to the silence that redeems us and stop seeking outside ourselves for the great missing piece.

Thank you, Robert and Cheryl for remembering. I am experiencing deep recognition of truth.

Yes Virginia, there is a book out there about spirituality and the esoteric that doesn't have you bleeding from the eyes by the second chapter: this one (provided you skip the introduction, which could put you off completely with its purple prose, obfuscating jargon, and a hilarious impenetrability: a stark contrast to what it's introducing).

In this humble little tome, Robert Sardello takes us on a gentle journey into authentic spiritual practice. In nine simple chapters (interlaced with lightly poetic commentaries by his partner Cheryl), Robert edges us step by step into a deeper relationship with that which can fill the heart of us... you... the world... if we're willing to accept it's not "in" us because we're in... on... surrounded by... it! :)

What sets this book apart from so many is the precision of the prose in describing spiritual phenomena. Robert really understands them and has a deftly sound take on what lies beneath them. His approach is informed by the big traditions but is strictly non-denominational. It embraces the psychological without eschewing the spiritual. He uses apt words like "Silence" that resonate with the soul and spirit but don't obscure the meaning. In short, Robert clearly gets it and makes it easy for you to do likewise, if you're open to this stuff.

I'd be very surprised if genuine seekers of Truthful experience weren't inspired and filled with joy by what this book has to offer, as I was... am... are...

I read the review that said to crawl over broken glass before you die to get this book but for me reading it is like crawling over broken glass. Its just so wordy and while silence may be a great thing, its like this guy just took the word presence and changed it to silence. I have read a third the way through the book but have found nothing practical. Its flowery speech, if you like flowers... go for it. I don't like Rich Prose. Oh, and its written as if he knows all the rules but its not what I am looking for.... I just don't like it at all. I don't like reading it. I wish I didn't spend money on it. I would like to get my money back in fact.