Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please “It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain. It is a paradox that keeping still can lead us so fully into life and being.” – ‘The Paradox of Noise’, Gunilla Norris Later, you’ll write books about this,” my thirteen year old daughter assured me. She was always wise beyond her years, so I had to trust her that I would survive, maybe even write somehow. But would mine be a story worth telling? My tale was a tragedy, a life upended, a career cut short, a vertebrae crushed. What was left but a ghost in a shell, a crashed SUV, the four walls of a room? I was thirty-two when I broke my neck. I had lived loud, fought my way up in a man’s trade, and led with an ego.…