PIAS0-2 Pico Iyer - The Art of Stillness.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Author: Pico Iyer
Read By: Pico Iyer
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Nonfiction - Self Help
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Abridged: No
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Media: Digital
Source: Overdrive WMA
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
A follow up to Pico Iyer's 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 would a man who seems able to go everywhere and do anything - like
the international heartthrob and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Leonard
Cohen - choose to spend years sitting still and going nowhere? What
can Nowhere offer that no Anywhere can match? And 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 and getting
to know the seasons and landscapes of Nowhere might be the ultimate
adventure?
In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known wanderer-monks
like Cohen - as well as from his own experiences as a travel writer
who chooses to spend most of his time in rural Japan - to explore why
advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Iyer reflects
that this is perhaps the reason why many people - even those with no
religious commitment - seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or
tai chi. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the
wisdom of an earlier age. There is even a growing trend toward observing
an "Internet sabbath" every week, turning off online connections from
Friday night to Monday morning and reviving those ancient customs known
as family meals and conversation.
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. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many have
found richness in stillness and what - from Marcel Proust to Blaise
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