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Millions of listeners worldwide have treasured the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first explore the world of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer in The Teachings of Don Juan. Now, at last, Don Juan returns in The Power of Silence - wise, infuriating, capable or working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking the wisdom of the warrior. The Power of Silence is Castaneda's most astonishing book to date - a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind.

The Voice of the Silence, a revered spiritual text by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, presents timeless wisdom from ancient Eastern teachings and is regarded as essential for any seeker on the path to enlightenment. Blavatsky’s work draws on fragments from the mystical "Book of the Golden Precepts," offering a guide to inner transformation and the cultivation of compassion, wisdom, and self-mastery.

The overwhelming pressure to make time for everything on our calendars can quickly lead to being over-committed, over-booked, and with nothing left to give to our true calling in life. Secretly, our hearts long to build a quality life that isn’t obligated to answer every buzz or beep of our devices.

When the Delphian Oracle was asked by a seeker of knowledge what was the open sesame of all knowledge and all wisdom, the brief answer was "Know thyself". Wisely spoken, for to know oneself is the source of all health, supply, knowledge, power, and happiness.

The author of the "dazzling epic" (Lev Grossman, Time) Brilliant delivers an indelible view of the ways silence affects those who seek it and those who have it imposed upon them. Through her original, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society.

It seems we are always one step behind the life we truly want to live. We often swing between two seemingly opposite poles of experience: on the one side is isolation, anxiety, confusion, fear; and on the other side is unity, clarity, joy, enthusiasm, and energy. Beyond both is magical living, pointed to by such signs as serendipity, synchronicity, transcendence, grace, intuition. How can we can neutralize habitual, conditioned patterns of knowledge and perception?