Audio Books →The Wandering Mind What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BZFFC6PP | 2023 | 5 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Jamie Kreiner
Narrator: Jamie Kreiner
The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements-were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending.