Sites that help you discover silence

SITES THAT HELP YOU DISCOVER SILENCE

Discovering silence And falling in love with its depths is a great blessing. But like all blessings, you also have to know how to seek them out. Silence is just around the corner, if we know how to commit ourselves, and valuable help can come from the web, from sites that help you discover it.

Let's face it: there is a desire for silence, so much desire. We are overwhelmed by noise, by a background of constant chaos, by sounds that we don't like and that don't bring us well-being. On the contrary, the silence, if well rediscovered, gives us peace, serenity, thought, depth. And it even helps us a lot in relationships.

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ACADEMY OF SILENCE

"The Academy of Silence" is a site created thanks to a group of professors and students from the province of Arezzo, whose aim is to describe the language of silence: how much silence helps to communicate, how important silence is for get to know not only others but also ourselves betterThe Academy of Silence, led by Professors Duccio Demetrio and Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot, organizes a school throughout the year, seminars, and courses. Its website also features a map of the Places of Silence. It is updated based on reader feedback.

TURBULENT

This site used to be called Le strade zitte. The name has changed, but the mission is Turbulent – this is the new name – has remained the same as the one used when the platform was founded: to allow the search and selection of 173 routes to be done by bike or on foot, to discover the silence.

THE SILENT WAY

The silent way It's a commercial site specializing in short trips (usually three or four days) to places characterized by very quiet environments. Small villages, natural oases, the sea, mountains, and countryside. You'll be spoiled for choice.

NEW WINE

New Wine It's a proposal from a Catholic association for sharing meditation days and activities. Among its aims is to be a place where "we can help each other read the signs of the times, where we can attentively observe everything that happens both within and outside of faith communities, especially when it challenges our daily indolence."

HOW TO REDISCOVER THE PLEASURE OF SILENCE:

• Communicating with Silence: Pope Francis's Lesson to the Wordspeople of Nothing
• Silence, please: this is how Finland promotes tourism. And it reminds us of the health risks of excessive noise.
• Noise pollution: when noise affects the quality of life