Title
The Art Of Stillness: Adventures In Going Nowhere (Ted Books)
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A Follow Up To Pico Iyers Essay The Joy Of Quiet, The Art Of Stillness Considers The Unexpected Adventure Of Staying Put And Reveals A Counterintuitive Truth: The More Ways We Have To Connect, The More We Seem Desperate To Unplug.Why Might A Lifelong Traveler Like Pico Iyer, Who Has Journeyed From Easter Island To Ethiopia, Cuba To Kathmandu, Think That Sitting Quietly In A Room Might Be The Ultimate Adventure? Because In Our Madly Accelerating World, Our Lives Are Crowded, Chaotic And Noisy. Theres Never Been A Greater Need To Slow Down, Tune Out And Give Ourselves Permission To Be Still.In The Art Of Stillnessa Ted Books Releaseiyer Investigate The Lives Of People Who Have Made A Life Seeking Stillness: From Matthieu Ricard, A Frenchman With A Phd In Molecular Biology Who Left A Promising Scientific Career To Become A Tibetan Monk, To Revered Singersongwriter Leonard Cohen, Who Traded The Pleasures Of The Senses For Several Years Of Living The Nearsilent Life Of Meditation As A Zen Monk. Iyer Also Draws On His Own Experiences As A Travel Writer To Explore Why Advances In Technology Are Making Us More Likely To Retreat. He Reflects That This Is Perhaps The Reason Why Many Peopleeven Those With No Religious Commitmentseem To Be Turning To Yoga, Or Meditation, Or Seeking Silent Retreats. These Aren'T New Age Fads So Much As Ways To Rediscover The Wisdom Of An Earlier Age. Growing Trends Like Observing An Internet Sabbathturning Off Online Connections From Friday Night To Monday Morninghighlight How Increasingly Desperate Many Of Us Are To Unplug And Bring Stillness Into Our Lives.The Art Of Stillness Paints A Picture Of Why So Manyfrom Marcel Proust To Mahatma Gandhi To Emily Dickinsonhave Found Richness In Stillness. Ultimately, Iyer Shows That, In This Age Of Constant Movement And Connectedness, Perhaps Staying In One Place Is A More Exciting Prospect, And A Greater Necessity Than Ever Before.In 2013, Pico Iyer Gave A Blockbuster Ted Talk. This Lyrical And Inspiring Book Expands On A New Idea, Offering A Way Forward For All Those Feeling Affected By The Frenetic Pace Of Our Modern World.
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