It's much better to finish old business during a void Moon time-period than to try and push your agenda onto unreceptive friends, colleagues or family members.
They were divided into three groups: one worked in silence; and in another, the surgeons listened to music of their choice on headphones; the third listened to classical music chosen by the researchers.
I stopped my horse beside the building, on the edge of a dark and quiet lake. There, I could see reflected in the water a clear picture of the dead trees, and of the house and its empty, eye-like windows.
Part of a long tradition of Christian hermits, Sara spent forty days and nights alone on the Isle of Skye, seeking God in the silence of the remote Scottish island.