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 Adventure of Going Nowhere, "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. 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. KINDLE->Read The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books) BY Pico. A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," "The Adventure of Going Nowhere" 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. (KINDLE)->Download Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books).
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Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Read Online and Download The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books). Pico Iyer: The art of stillness TED Talk The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books) - Kindle edition by Iyer, Pico. And for more on moving to stand still, read Pico Iyer’s new TED Book, The Art of Stillness. 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 singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for.
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