It only takes a year of persevering meditation, or even half, to realize that you can live differently. Meditation cracks the structure of our personality until, from so much meditation, the crack widens and the old personality breaks and, like a flower, a new one begins to be born. To meditate is to attend this fascinating and tremendous process of death and rebirth. Little more than a hundred pages of unprecedented intensity that help us understand the importance of that humble but profound virtue that is attention. A book as small as it is exquisite that collects an obstinate search for itself. After meeting Franz Jalics -his teacher- and in response to the thousands of readers who wrote to comment and thank him for his Biography of silence, Pablo d'Ors founded in 2014 the association Friends of the Desert, whose purpose is to deepen and promote contemplative practice.