In @nytopinion.nytimes.com When the novelist Boris Fishman was looking for answers, he sought them at a silent retreat. “As the date approached,” he writes in a guest essay, “my thrill at the prospect of unspecified liberation turned to terror. I had never been alone with myself for that long.”

nyti.msOpinion | To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.A silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.