Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life In The Silence

There is a part of each of us that is a monk or a mystic. We yearn for perfect peace yet live our lives far removed from traditional monasteries?yet most of us would not want to give up our personal and spiritual freedom to join monastic life. We seek wholeness but realize that wholeness is not possible without sacredness. Sacred life takes root in solitude, in the time we take to develop a relationship with our inner life?in the kind of setting a monastery would offer. This book speaks to the monk or mystic within us. It affirms our place in the sacred silence of solitude and inner reflection, showing how even everyday life is filled with opportunities to live fully in the world?as if it were a holy monastery. Here we learn to live within the limits as well as the spirit of everyday life, how to appreciate our most human self as the path to explore the divine. How we encounter a world that is clearly available to us, a world filled with nothing less than the gift of sacred silence within the monastery without walls.

Bruce Davis, Ph.D., professional therapist, retreat leader is director silentstay.com next to Napa Valley in California. People from many countries attend these retreats for the simple peace, nature, and silence. Bruce's retreats have been recognized in Travel/leisure Magazine as one of the top ten retreats in the world. These retreats have also been recommended in the Huffington Post and Martha Steward's Whole Living Magazine.