Author meeting with Tomas Sjödin.
"The good silence is more about finding the tone than becoming silent, not about what you don't want to hear, but what you long to hear."
So writes Tomas Sjödin in The Sound of Silence, the book that is a direct sequel to his bestseller It Happens When You Rest.
Based on a solitary journey through Wyoming, USA, he describes the discovery of a silence that in our world is directly threatened with extinction, and puts into words the change it meant to introduce a moment of conscious silence in an otherwise quite talkative everyday life. On the surface, everything is pretty much the same, but beneath the surface, the change is total. In silence there are doors to worlds and expanses. Silence is not the goal, it is the beginning of a path that leads to the wonderful, spacious and rich universe of prayer. In the book, the author meets people with long experience of silence, listening and prayer.
The book is a winding tale that takes the reader through storm and calm, turmoil and peace, dawns and nocturnal blackness, deep forests and the secluded corner of the home. The Sound of Silence is a deeply personal story about the art of cherishing the wholeness of inner life in fragmented times.
Tomas Sjödin is an author, pastor, lecturer and columnist. He has become a popular and appreciated name. A clear example of this is that he has been a summer talk show host on Swedish Radio twice and has been voted by radio listeners as a winter talk show host no less than six times.
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