Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories Author: Christian McEwen Narrator: Christian McEwen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation Publisher's Summary: In her latest book, In Praise of Listening, Christian McEwen reflects on listening (silence, music, nature, prayer) in a series of thoughtful chapters, each one focused on a different theme. When an athlete speaks of 'listening to his body,' or a gardener describes herself as 'listening to the land,' when writers and artists explain that they are 'listening' to their work-in-progress, they are using the word as she chooses to use it here—as an extended metaphor for openness and receptivity, rippling out from the self-centered human to the farthest reaches of the non-human world. In Praise of Listening is a kind of sister or first cousin to McEwen's earlier, timely, and very popular, World Enough & Time, with the same emphasis on creativity and slowing down. As McEwen says: Most of us think of listening in fairly literal fashion: human beings listening (or not listening) to one another; the pleasure of attending to a familiar piece of music. But listening can have a far broader and more capacious meaning, moving out beyond the small apparatus of the ears to the hands or belly or enveloping spirit/mind.