“There is… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote in his 1972 taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. “But where does the modern soul go to pasture on awareness and commune with the cosmos in a civilization increasingly savaged by

“There is… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote in his 1972 taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. “But where does the modern soul go to pasture on awareness and commune with the cosmos in a civilization increasingly savaged by noise?”

Open your ears and allow yourself to step into this sound world. Close your eyes and be enveloped by the sound.

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