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Why paying $40 a day for silence was my best investment this year
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Without the haste that comes with being socially and digitally connected, the writer felt like she had more than 24 hours in a day.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
SINGAPORE – “You are from Singapore? We get many Singaporeans here. Most of them spend a lot of time looking at trees. You have many trees in Singapore. But you don’t have the time to look at them.”
I was at a silent retreat in Chiang Mai, Thailand, when I met Father David Townsend, a Catholic priest in his 80s.