Author Attends $60-a-Night Georgia Silent Retreat to Seek Inner Peace
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 1
Author Attends $60-a-Night Georgia Silent Retreat to Seek Inner Peace
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 1
Summary
Several days at a $60-a-night silent Christian retreat in rural Georgia gave the author a break from the constant talking and noise he says had left him depleted.
Two decades of therapy, marital strain, the pressures of parenthood and career success that felt hollow pushed him to try silence instead of more discussion.
The retreat—an ecumenical contemplative community with monastic quarters, silent meals and daily prayer—accepted him even though he is not Christian.
Founded in 1987 by civil-rights advocate Fay Key and Methodist pastor Steve Bullington, the plainspoken center is presented as an antidote to social media, advertising and modern overstimulation.