The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life

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Paperback. "Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. Sun: 10am-6pm 71 Balham High Road, Balham, SW12 9AP When the hedgehog curls up in its bed of leaves, its heart rate slows, its body temperature drops and for months there it remains, hardly breathing at all. A beautifully written story about the end of life, in which hedgehogs become a metaphor for hope It is the Winter Solstice and Sarah Sands is sitting by her father's bedside, bracing herself for loss. Monk's Medicine is a quest for that hidden knowledge - a pilgrimage to ten monasteries round the world, from a Coptic desert community in Egypt to a retreat in the Japanese mountains. " - Nicholas Hytner Suffering from information overload, unable to sleep, Sarah Sands, former editor of the BBC's Today programme, has tried many different strategies to de-stress. What her father needs to do, she thinks, is conserve his energy - to hibernate like a hedgehog. But all is not yet lost.