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 need to know how to seek it. Silence is just around the corner, if we know how to apply ourselves, and valuable help can come from the web, from sites that help you discover it.

Let's face it: there's a longing for silence , a great longing for it. We're overwhelmed by noise, by a background of perpetual chaos, by sounds we don't like and don't bring us well-being. On the contrary, silence , if properly rediscovered, gives us peace, serenity, reflection, and depth . And it even helps us greatly in relationships.

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ACADEMY OF SILENCE

" The Academy of Silence " is a website created by a group of professors and students from the province of Arezzo. Its goal is to explore the language of silence: how silence helps us communicate, how important silence is for better understanding not only others but also ourselves . The Academy of Silence, spearheaded by professors Duccio Demetrio and Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot, organizes a school throughout the year, seminars, and courses, and 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 (Silent Streets). The name has changed, but the mission of Turbolento —its new name—has remained the same: to allow users to search and select 173 routes to explore by bike or on foot, discovering silence.

THE SILENT WAY

The Silent Way is a commercial website specializing in short trips (typically three to 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

VinoNuovo is a Catholic association's proposal 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 is happening 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