Silence: In the Age of Noise

Reviews

Sasha Ward

", and the poet fumbles his way around through too many words. 'The arrow leaves the bow, as a Zen master described the start of a bad poem, but "does not fly straight to the target, nor does the target stand where it is.

'If your partner doesn't understand you when you are silent, mightn't it be even harder for them to understand you when you're speaking? 'I happen to agree with this sentiment too. It is in these extraordinary adventures that he has experienced a profound sense of nothingness, a silence unlike the silence an average person is likely to relay.