Into The Quiet
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading of this book, and did the setting change how it landed on you?
What is the quietest place you have ever been, and what do you remember about how your body felt there?
The book treats noise as something more than sound. What is the loudest thing in your life right now that makes no sound at all?
Was there a page where you felt yourself relax, or set the book down just to sit for a minute? What was on it?
The book suggests that hurry costs us something. What has yours quietly cost you lately, and were you surprised to name it?
Which of the invitations to slow down felt genuinely comforting to you, and which one made you a little uneasy or defensive?
By the time you finished, had your idea of what silence is for shifted at all? What did it become for you?
If you kept just one small practice from this book for the next year, what would you choose, and who in your life would notice first?