Takeaway: Going Nowhere gives you the opportunity to synthesize lessons, emotions and experiences in order to create a truly fulfilling. Summary of the summary: Sitting still (or going Nowhere) is how many of us get what we most crave and need in our accelerated lives. In 2013, Pico Iyer gave a blockbuster TED Talk. Book: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. 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. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many-from Marcel Proust to Mahatma Gandhi to Emily Dickinson-have found richness in stillness.
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Iyer Pico Hardcover 380,00. Ships from and sold by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. Growing trends like observing an “Internet Sabbath”-turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning-highlight how increasingly desperate many of us are to unplug and bring stillness into our lives. This item: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books) by Pico Iyer Hardcover 1 205,00. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. He 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 seeking silent retreats. The adventure of going nowhere but inside ourselves. The Art of Stillness is a persuasively argued case for the pleasures of slowing down and being in one place. Iyer also draws on his own experiences as a travel writer to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Sitting still, writes Pico Iyer in The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, is a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it. In The Art of Stillness-a TED Books release-Iyer 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 several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk. There’s never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still. 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. 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.
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