Literature Link from Dale

Literature Link for Oct.17, 2021- Language and Silence

• Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise by Thich Nhat Hahn.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a world-renowned Buddhist Zen master, poet, author, scholar, and activist for social change, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “To hear the call of beauty and respond to it, we need silence. Silence shows us how to find and maintain our equanimity amid the barrage of noise. Thich Nhat Hanh guides us on a path to cultivate calm even in the most chaotic places.” https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Power-Quiet-World-Noise/dp/0062224700

• We All Need More Wonder & Awe by Louise Altman and Intentional Communication Consultants. “It is, after all, easy to see how we have lost our sense of wonder. Wonder seems like such an extravagance in a demanding and harsh world — one driven by relentless productivity. But we need wonder — now more than ever.” This brief, lovely commentary also includes two poems from our UU poet, Mary Oliver. https://www.intentionalcommunication.com/we-all-need-more-wonder-awe-reprise/

• “The Chilean Forest” by Pablo Neruda. [prose] In a passge from his Memoirs: “Celebrating fifty years of Earth Day, astronaut and poetry-lover Leland Melvin — one of a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of humans in the history of our species to have left this rare planet, to have seen its forests and its intricate living web of relationships from the cosmic perspective, and to have returned loving it all the more passionately — breathed new life into Neruda’s forgotten words with a soulful reading of that passage [audio]: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/04/26/leland-melvin-reads-pablo-neruda-chilean-forest/

In Faith,

Dale Dunnigan