Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us Sarah Shin attends to the personal—our unique

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Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us Sarah Shin attends to the personal—our uniqueFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous Desert shares the stories and sayings of these ancient spiritual seekers, tracing how the ambient sounds of wind, thunder, water, and