Welcome to “The Quiet Life”, with Susan Cain: art, ideas, consolations, and candlelight.
Hi, I’m Susan – author of the #1 NY Times bestselling books, QUIET and BITTERSWEET, seeker of sunny cafe windows, unlikely award-winning speaker.
For the past twenty years, I’ve been exploring a particular realm of human nature: the quiet, the sensitive, the thoughtful, the bittersweet.
It has always seemed clear to me that this way of being can lead to a richer, deeper form of happiness.
Yet people who operate on this frequency often feel out of step with the always-on, bafflingly-loud, and thick-skinned world around them.
If you’re a seeker of quiet, depth, and beauty - I created the Quiet Life for your particular sensibility.
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The Quiet Life is a labor of love, and as such it requires a ton of labor, energy, devotion, and staffing!
In order to make this a sustainable project, we have free, paid, and scholarship memberships:
*Free: When you join the Quiet Life as a free subscriber, you’ll receive several Kindred Letters per month from me.
*Paid: When you join the Quiet Life as a paid member, you’ll also be able to:
Get started, with a free copy of the Quiet Life Journal (normal cost is $24.99). The QL Journal has 52 “prompts” — one for each week of the year — to help you add more poetry, ideas, and inspiration to your Quiet Life. You can start working with the journal at any time; it doesn’t need to be on Jan. 1. (Please note - Shipping not included. Also, we can send the free journal only to annual subscribers, not monthly ones.)
Read all my Kindred newsletters (where I curate art and ideas, and basically write 2 books a year for you). Here are two examples:
Join the comments, join the conversation.
Read the full archives of past Kindred Letters.
Join our candlelit monthly gatherings: with author interviews, deep reflective exercises, and magical, introvert-friendly chemistry.
Gain access to many hours of recorded Candlelight Chats with fascinating past guests, like bestselling authors Sharon Salzberg (groundbreaking meditation teacher), Pico Iyer (soulfully brilliant author), Scott Barry Kaufman (one of the world’s leading psychologists), Joseph Nguyen (wise-beyond-his-years Buddhist thinker), the dream-decoders from This Jungian Life, and more.
Share your own creative work and writings.
Most of all, support our shared online oasis of quiet, depth, and beauty!
My aim is for you to add more art, poetry, ideas and consolation to your life, with the ultimate goal of experiencing more of that “richer, deeper form of happiness” I mentioned before.
Founding members: When you join the Quiet Life as a founding member, you will of course receive all the above; but you will also help us grow and thrive - and fund our scholarship memberships!
*Scholarships: If you can’t afford the membership, please, just email us about a full or partial scholarship, at hello@thequietlife.net. No one should decline to join us, for lack of funds.
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About Me
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. I like to think before I speak (softly). My favorite activities are reading, writing, and lounging around cafés. These days, I’m on a tennis kick.
A few times a year, I try to like cooking. I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions. I’m insatiably curious about human nature.
To me, one of the best things in the world is that sublime moment when a writer, artist, or musician manages to express something you’ve always felt but never articulated, or at least never quite so beautifully.
