Silence is essential for the health and well-being of humans and our environment, yet has almost vanished from our lives and world.  This book exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives – what Maggie Ross calls ‘the work of silence’; it describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unaware. It shows that re-learning the work of silence – once understood to be the foundation of the teaching of Jesus – gives us a way of being in the world that is more than we can ask for or imagine.