The Quiet Current | A Contemplative Parable of Presence, Surrender, and Inner Freedom
Language: English
Published by A.E. Vale, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germanypreigu
AbeBooks seller since August 5, 2024
Condition: New
£ 23.84
Quantity: 5 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Seller Inventory # 135324059
- Title
- The Quiet Current | A Contemplative Parable of Presence, Surrender, and Inner Freedom
- Author
- A. E. Vale
- Publisher
- A.E. Vale
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235239555
- Item weight
- 382 grams
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- Seller catalogs
- Bücher
The Quiet Current: A Contemplative Parable of Presence, Surrender, and Inner Freedom is a quiet, penetrating novel about what happens when a successful life stops feeling inhabitable. Adrian has done everything a capable modern man is supposed to do. He is competent, respected, reliable, and always in motion. He knows how to manage pressure, anticipate problems, soften conflict, and keep the machinery of work and life running smoothly. Yet beneath that competence, something in him has gone hard. His mind never stops narrating, correcting, planning, defending, and tightening around the next demand. He is outwardly functional and inwardly exhausted.
What begins as strain gradually becomes a deeper crisis of identification. A power outage interrupts the office and briefly exposes a quieter world beneath the ordinary noise. A failed relationship lingers in memory. Time with his aging mother reveals the emotional architecture beneath his busyness. Work pressure, bodily fatigue, private loneliness, and the old reflex to control everything converge until Adrian can no longer avoid the central fact of his life: he has mistaken tension for strength, usefulness for worth, and inner vigilance for love.
The book unfolds in three movements. Part I, The Noise, immerses the reader in Adrian's overmanaged life and the compulsive mind that governs it. Part II, The Undoing, traces the collapse of that false strength through interruption, grief, family, and the exposure of the inward "contracts" he has made with fear and self-protection. Part III, The Quiet Current, does not offer grand transcendence or a spiritual performance. Instead, it reveals something subtler and more radical: a human being slowly learning how to remain present inside ordinary life without fleeing into thought, control, or grasping.
This is not a plot-driven story of external triumph. It is a contemplative parable for readers who know what it means to live with too much inward noise. It explores the silent habits by which people abandon themselves-through overthinking, overfunctioning, anticipation, emotional self-defense, and the endless effort to stay ahead of life. And it asks a deeper question: what remains when the argument with reality begins to end?
Written in luminous, meditative prose, The Quiet Current belongs to the territory between literary fiction, spiritual reflection, and psychological awakening. It will resonate with readers drawn to stillness, surrender, inner freedom, and the hidden costs of modern achievement. Rather than preaching a doctrine, it dramatizes a shift in consciousness: from identification to witnessing, from striving to presence, from inner captivity to a quieter participation in life as it is.
At its heart, this is a book about learning to stay. Stay in the room. Stay in the body. Stay with grief, tenderness, uncertainty, love, and the ordinary moment before the mind converts it into strategy. In Adrian's gradual undoing, the reader encounters a deeper possibility for his or her own life-not perfection, not escape, but a different way of being alive.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping rates from Germany to U.S.A.
| Item | 60 to 60 business days | 60 to 60 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 59.90 | £ 59.90 |
Payment methods
- Paypal
Store description
Specialty
Bücher, SpielwarenSeller's business information
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstraße 19
Osnabrück, Germany 49078
Terms of sale
About Us
Legal website operator identification:
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstr. 19
49078 Osnabrück
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84
Email: mail@preigu.de
VAT No: DE 455 380 498
AG Osnabrück - HRA 209647
PhG: preigu Verwaltung GmbH
AG Osnabrück - HRB 221793
CEO: Ansas Meyer
We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before consumer arbitration boards.
We are a member of the initiative "FairCommerce" since 30.11.2016.
For more information, see: https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/haendlerbund/interessenvertretung/faircommerce
Right of withdrawal
Instructions for revocation
Right of withdrawal for the sale of goods
Revocation right for consumers
(A ‘consumer' is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction which, to an overwhelming extent, cannot be attributed to either his commercial or independent professional activities.)
Instructions for revocation
Revocation right
You have the right to revoke this contract within 14 days without specifying any reasons.
The revocation period is 14 days with effect from the day,
-
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the products, provided you had ordered one or more products within the scope of a standard order and this/these product/products is/are delivered uniformly;
-
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last product, provided you had ordered several products within the scope of a standard order and these products are delivered separately;
-
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last part delivery or the last unit, provided you had ordered a product, which is delivered in several part deliveries or units;
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Telephone number: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, E-Mail address: mail@preigu.de) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by post, or an e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached model withdrawal form for this purpose, which is, however, not mandatory.
You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online by clicking on a button labelled accordingly (such as ‘Withdraw from contract' or similar) on the AbeBooks/ZVAB website. If you use this online function, you will immediately receive a confirmation of receipt on a durable medium (e.g. via email) containing information on the content of the withdrawal notice, as well as the date and time of its receipt.
In order to safeguard the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification about the exercise of the revocation right before the expiry of the revocation period.
Consequences of the revocation
If you revoke this contract, we shall repay all the payments, which we received from you, including the delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs, which arise from that fact that you selected a form of delivery other than the most reasonable standard delivery offered by us), immediately and at the latest within 14 days from the day on which we received the notification about the revocation of this contract from you. We use the same means of payment, which you had originally used during the original transaction, for this repayment unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; you will not be charged any fees owing to this repayment.
We can refuse the repayment until the products are returned to us or until you have furnished evidence that you have sent the products back to us, depending on whichever is earlier.
You must return or transfer the products to us immediately and, in any case, at the latest within 14 days with effect from the day on which you inform us of the revocation of this contract. The deadline is maintained if you send the products before the expiry of the 14 day deadline.
You bear the direct costs for returning the products.
You must pay for any depreciation of the products only if this depreciation can be attributed to any handling with you that was not necessary for checking the condition, features and functionality of the products.
Criteria for exclusion or expiry
The revocation right is not available for contracts
-
for delivery of products, which are not prefabricated and for whose manufacturing an individual selection or stipulation by the consumer is important or which are clearly tailored to the personal requirements of the consumer;
-
for delivery of products, which can spoil quickly or whose use-by date would be exceeded quickly;
-
for delivery of alcoholic drinks, whose price was agreed at the time of concluding the contract, which however can be delivered 30 days after the conclusion of the contract at the earliest and whose current value depends on the fluctuations in the market, on which the entrepreneur has no influence;
-
for delivery of newspapers, periodicals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts. The revocation right expires prematurely in case of contracts
-
for delivery of sealed products, which are not suitable for return for reasons of health protection or hygiene if their seal has been removed after the delivery;
-
for delivery of products if they have been mixed inseparably with other goods after the delivery, owing to their condition;
-
for delivery of sound or video recording or computer software in a sealed package if the seal has been removed after the delivery.
Specimen - revocation form
(If you wish to revoke the contract, please fill up this form and send it back to us.)
-
To preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Email address: mail@preigu.de :
-
I/we () herewith revoke the contract concluded by me/ us () regarding the purchase of the following products ()/
the provision of the following service () -
Ordered on ()/ received on ()
-
Name of the consumer(s)
-
Address of the consumer(s)
-
Signature of the consumer(s) (only in case of a notification on paper)
-
Date
(*) Cross out the incorrect option.