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Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

"Quiet is a Place I Return To" | Sarah Clarkson (EP02)

Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In a distracted world driven by many screens and ceaseless activity, many struggle with a restless, disquiet mind. We yearn deeply for inward rootedness and calm, yet the cultivation of quiet often feels abstract and out-of-reach. Yet quiet is, and always has been, essential to life.


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Sarah Clarkson is an author and blogger who writes regularly about literature, faith, and beauty at SarahClarkson.com. She studied theology (BTh, MSt) at Oxford and is the author or coauthor of six books, including This Beautiful Truth. She has an active following on Instagram (@sarahwanders) where she hosts regular live read-alouds from the poems, novels, or essays that bring her courage. She can often be found with a cup of good tea and a book in hand in her old English vicarage home in Oxford, where she lives with her Anglican vicar husband, Thomas, and their four children


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Quiet is the homeland of the self. We needed to renegotiate my idea of what quiet meant.

0:05.2

Because if it's something that is only for someone with a lot of time, a lot of discipline, and the capacity to be really focused, well, I was never going to be quiet.

0:13.3

Quiet is not something I earn or attain. It's something I return to. It is already there. It is something I relax into or return home to. Something

0:22.9

I realized very early in my motherhood was, if I stopped doing the things that made me me,

0:27.8

then I would just be flattening my whole self. What my children needed was not me to stop being

0:33.0

myself in order to be their mother. They needed me to invite them into the things I did.

0:37.1

I could invite them into my things I did. I could

0:37.5

invite them into my practices of quiet and it would create both relationship with them and also

0:42.7

culture in our home. In a distracted world driven by many screens and ceaseless activity,

0:49.6

many struggle with a restless, disquiet mind. We yearn deeply for inward rudeness and calm, yet the

0:56.3

cultivation of quiet often feels abstract and out of reach. Yet quiet is and always has been

1:01.6

essential to life. And that's why it's so important that we cultivate the rhythm of quiet

1:06.7

into our day to day. And joining me today to encourage us in those pursuits is author Sarah Clarkson.

1:13.5

In this conversation, we dive into why people are looking to reclaim quiet, the evolution

1:18.2

of seeking quiet in her own life, and more.

1:20.8

I did want to give you a heads up that near the end of the conversation, Sarah speaks

1:24.3

directly towards Christians.

1:25.9

But even if that's not where your spirituality aligns,

1:28.7

there is so much to be taken away from this conversation.

1:31.7

This week's episode is made possible by sponsors of the show.

1:35.2

If any of this week's sponsors peak your interest,

1:37.3

please check them out, but as I always say,

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