Vivienne Flesher

The Joy of Quiet

By PICO IYER

Published: December 29, 2011

David Steindl-Rast describes “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”

The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what’s new, but what’s essential.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html