Hello, John!

Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Silence is more than the absence of noise; it has a life of its own. We are invited into its living presence to find the wholeness of being and the peace it brings. 

Silent Compassion bridges the gulf between our need for a deeper prayer life and the silence required to bring us closer to the divine. Because, as Richard put it, "Silence grounds everything. We cannot just see it as an accident, or as something unnecessary. But unless we learn how to live there, go there, abide in this different phenomenon, the rest becomes superficial." And it is within that soundless space, the author explains here, that we can truly hear the voice of God.

In the pages of this book, you can find the distilled elixir of his [Rohr's] most profound and grounded insights. Although each chapter spills graciously into the one before and culminates in a brimming basin of practical wisdom, I encourage you to approach this book as you would an oracle, opening it anywhere and drinking in the living waters of that page as the precise remedy you need for any given moment of your life.

—Mirabai Starr, from the forward 

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