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Preface by Joseph L. Henderson
A Letter from the Publisher
Foreword by Elizabeth Silverthorne
1. A Gap-Filling Society
A Case in Point
Silent Gaps
Tell Me About Silence
Noise Treatment
When Silence Needs a Noisy Companion
Silent Treatment of Nations
2. The Nature of Silence
Philosophers and Poets
3. Pandemonium and Silence
A Patient Seeks Sanctuary in Silence
The Off-and-On Phenomena
My Most Daunting Experience
4. Listening
On Doing Nothing
Let Us Not Forget Pooh Bear
Prophesy at the Threshold
Threat of Death
5. War
A Noiseless Blast
The Sky Gaps
The Mountain Gaps
Synchronicity?
Max Cleland: Vietnam Triple Amputee
It Is So, But the Prophesy Is Not Fulfilled
On Not Being Able to Talk
The Seventh Seal is Silence
Home of the Brave
Savages Attack: Who is Possessed by Demons?
Wartime Secret
6. MA
The Japanese Word MA
MA in America - Not
MA Is Sometimes Ma
Crafted MA
The Significance of MA in Japanese Culture
The Tao
7. Spirit and Death: The Ultimate Ordeal
Dream One
Dream Two
Dream Three
Synchronicity
My Death
The Unfillable Gaps: Death and the Black Hole
The Black Hole and the Death of the Sun
Avoiding Another Dark Age
8. Patience
The Great MAW
Patience and Waiting
The I-Thou/I-It Cycle
Meditation, Contemplation, and No-Mind
A Word on the Temper of Our Times
Meditation and Yoga
The Monastery
Entering the Contemplative Monastic Life
Solitude
Seeking Another and Sex
Kathleen Norris
In patientia vestra habetis animam vestram:
An Alchemical Exhortation
And What Can We Do About Silence and Noise?
The Quest for Silence
Bibliography
Index
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