num_pages: 195
description: These past two decades modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. Were experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us corrodes true communion with others and leaves us anxious unsettled bored isolated and lonely. These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the worlds greatest thinkers including Plato Aristotle St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas these pages help you identify  and show you how to cultivate  the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment. This book offers a calm measured yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here youll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the worlds communication chaos. Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that IPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? Its not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you.
language: None
title: A Mind at Peace
publisher: Sophia Institute Press