Friends, many of you know the podcast I co-host, Encountering Silence (and if you don’t know it, check it out!).
The following list of books represents some of my co-hosts’ and my favorite books on the topic of silence. We offer it here for your browsing and reading pleasure. The titles are linked to the books’ pages on Amazon — please note that if you follow one of these links and make a purchase through Amazon, at no extra cost to you Amazon will provide a small commission to help keep our podcast running. Thank you for doing so!
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Books — on or about Silence
- Anthony De Mello, Selected Writings
- Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You
- Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine
- Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable
- Bede Griffiths, Essential Writings
- Bernard McGinn, ed., The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
- Bieke Vandekerckhove, A Taste of Silence: How I Came to be at Home With Myself
- Carl Jung, The Portable Jung
- Carl McColman, Answering the Contemplative Call
- Carl McColman, The Aspiring Mystic
- Carl McColman, Befriending Silence
- Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
- Carl McColman, The Little Book of Christian Mysticism
- Carl McColman, Christian Mystics
- Carl McColman, An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom
- Carl McColman, The Lion, the Mouse and the Dawn Treader
- Carl McColman, Spirituality
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
- Cassidy Hall and Patrick Shen, Notes on Silence
- Catherine Doherty, Poustinia
- Cathering Meeks (ed.), Living Into God’s Dream
- Catholic Church, The Liturgy of the Hours
- Christian Bobin, The Eighth Day: Selected Writings
- Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss
- Coleman Barks, tr., The Essential Rumi
- Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
- The Dalai Lama, Stages of Meditation
- David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God
- The Desert Fathers and Mothers, Early Christian Wisdom Sayings
- The Desert Fathers and Mothers, The Wisdom of the Desert (edited by Thomas Merton)
- e. e. cummings, A Miscellany (Revised)
- Elias Marechal, Tears of An Innocent God
- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
- Ernest Wood, A Zen Dictionary
- Evagrius Ponticus, The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer
- Desert Mothers and Fathers, Early Christian Wisdom Sayings
- Francis X. Clooney, Comparative Theology
- Gerald G. May, Addiction and Grace
- Gerald G. May, Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology
- Hans Urs Von Balthazar, The Glory of the Lord
- Helen Lees, Silence in Schools
- Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out
- Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
- Howard Thurman, Essential Writings
- Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
- Howard Thurman, The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time (6-CD set)
- Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
- Howard Thurman, The Centering Moment
- Howard Thurman, Disciplines of the Spirit
- Howard Thurman, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
- Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Living in the New Consciousness
- Irene Zimmerman, Incarnation
- Isaac of Stella, Sermons on the Christian Year
- James Martin, Between Heaven and Mirth
- James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
- James Martin, Becoming Who You Are
- Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
- Jan Willis, Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist and Buddhist
- Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being
- John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
- John Cassian, Conferences
- John of the Cross, Collected Works
- Joyce Rupp, Fragments of Your Ancient Name
- Julian of Norwich, Showings
- Karl Rahner, Encounters with Silence
- Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Dying
- Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
- Maggie Ross, Seasons of Death and Life: A Wilderness Memoir
- Maggie Ross, Silence, A User’s Guide Volume 1: Process
- Maggie Ross, Silence: A User’s Guide Volume 2: Application
- Maggie Ross, Writing the Icon of the Heart
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land
- Martin Thornton, Christian Proficiency
- Marvin C. Shaw, The Paradox of Intention
- Mary Margaret Funk, Thoughts Matter
- Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
- Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems
- Max Picard, The World of Silence
- Meister Eckhart, The Complete Mystical Works
- Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings
- Michael Casey, Sacred Reading: the Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
- Monica Furlong, Contemplating Now
- Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light
- Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
- Nicholas of Cusa, Selected Spiritual Writings
- Pablo Picasso, Living in Art
- Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
- Pema Chödrön, Pure Meditation (the Audio Collection)
- Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
- Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
- Richard Rohr, Yes, And…
- Robert Kennedy, Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit
- Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes
- Rufus Jones, Finding the Trail of Life
- Rumi, The Essential Rumi
- Saint Benedict, The Rule of Saint Benedict
- Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence
- Sherry Bryant-Johnson (ed.), Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color
- T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday”
- Teresa of Ávila, The Book of My Life
- Therese Taylor-Stinson (ed.), Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around — Stories of Contemplation and Justice
- Thomas G. Hand, Always a Pilgrim
- Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
- Thomas Merton, The Asian Journal
- Thomas Merton, Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
- Thomas Merton, Day of a Stranger
- Thomas Merton, Dialogues with Silence
- Thomas Merton, Emblems of a Season of Fury
- Thomas Merton, Essential Writings
- Thomas Merton, In the Dark Before Dawn
- Thomas Merton, Literary Essays
- Thomas Merton, Love and Living
- Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
- Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
- Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable
- Thomas Merton, Selected Essays
- Tilden Edwards, Embracing the Call to Spiritual Depth
- Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems
- William Johnston, Mystical Theology: The Science of Love
- William Johnston, Silent Music: The Science of Meditation
- William Johnston, The Still Point
Movies
- Philip Gröning, dir., Into Great Silence
- Patrick Shen (dir.), In Pursuit of Silence
- Martin Scorses (Dir.), Silence
Music
- Ambient One by Brian Eno
- Liquid Mind VII: Reflection by Liquid Mind
- Soundtrack for In Pursuit of Silence by Alex Lu
