The power of silence in the smartphone age

In our always-on digital era it’s all too easy to disconnect ourselves from peace and quiet, and the inner wealth it can bringWhenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail away from the world, I have learned to shut it out.Learning this took time. Only when I understood that I had a primal need for silence was I able to begin my search for it – and there, deep beneath a cacophony of traffic noise and thoughts, music and machinery, iPhones and snow ploughs, it lay in wait for me. Silenc