Simply Do It Do It Simply

About the Book 'Speech is not silver and silence is not gold. Gold is instead the right amount of speech and silence.

This is how Martin Kampchen overturns a popular saying and probes into the meaning of speech and silence beyond clichéd thinking. In curt, pointed literary texts the author describes everyday activities waking, breathing, and greeting. offering praise, remembering, sleeping or listening. He breaks open the thoughtless routine with which we normally carry them out, trying to discover their authentic value. Drawing from the wisdom of Indian and Christian contemplative thought, Kampchen however firmly relates his texts to our 21st century's search for a simple, truthful life style.

About the Author Martin Kampchen, born in 1948 in Germany, has spent forty years of his life in India. After studying in the USA Paris and Vienna, he earned a PhD in Literature and went to India to teach German in Kolkata After four years he returned to university in Chennai and Shantiniketan, earning a PhD in Religious Studies. He translated Sri Ramakrishna and Rabindranath Tagore's poetry from Bengali into German. He wrote. translated and edited books about Indian life, thus becoming one of the important cultural links between India and Germany The present book introduce the author to Indian readers.

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