• Episode 18: Silent Tuesdays

  • May 16 2019
  • Length: Less than 1 minute
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Episode 18: Silent Tuesdays

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  • “When I spent a winter at Princeton...I used to visit an old man who lived near the campus...He was a mathematician, a friend of Einstein’s. Every time I came, which was usually at night, he would open the door for me and take me in close to the fireplace. Then his wife would offer me a cup of tea and we would spend an hour just sitting there. After that, I’d bow to him and go home. That happened many times. I knew in advance that whenever I came, the same thing would happen. Yet I always came, because it was very nice and very rewarding. We need to learn again how to be silent...Silence can be more intimate than talking. It is a way of being that makes your doing, your action, deeper and more effective.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power, p. 156. Inspired by the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s story of his silent nights with the mathematician, our family has, over the past twenty years, sometimes experimented with “Silent Tuesdays.” We put the word out to friends and fami
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