All are welcome to this unique place where a respectful hush is maintained from 9am to 3.30pm. The Living Room is sponsored by the Carmelite Order, a contemplative tradition which began as groups of hermits living in the desert. It welcomes anyone who thirsts for connection in daily life. The Living Room offers a range of books and references from the major spiritual traditions on the contemplativ
e attitude. So come and explore the transformative, adventurous and refreshing quality of a reflective quiet. What gentle people experience as Divine, busy people experience as calm, and what weary people can experience as love, is open to anyone seeking the opportunity to listen to themselves, to another, to God…
It is a silent space offering refuge and healing to the spiritually disconnected. The collapse in turn of religious, political and financial authority has led to increasing social fragmentation and in many cases personal alienation
