In this fast paced world of information revolution, where a person is always in touch with external world through mobile phone, e-mail and internet, an individual is moving away from. But the topic, the art of staying still and watch life flow by, he dealt in his book is extraordinary. Tags: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer Free download, epub, pdf, docs, New York Times, ppt, audio books, Bloomberg, NYT, books to.Pico Iyer’s words flow like the sinuous path of a babbling brook through a mountainous terrain and bring you closer home, every time you read something by him or better still, have it narrated to you via an audiobook or a podcast.Pico Iyer, the author, was an ordinary looking gentleman. Title: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Author: Pico Iyer Formats: Kindle (.mobi), ePub (.epub), PDF (.pdf) Pages: 96 Downloads: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.pdf (0.7 MB), The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.mobi (2.2 MB), The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.epub (1.1 MB) A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay The Joy of Quiet.
And it’s only by stepping back, and then further back, and holding still, that we can begin to see what the canvas means to catch the larger picture and a few people do that for us by going nowhere.”One of our greatest luxuries… In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape.Find a ‘second home’ – if not in space, then in time.“… the day stretches Infront of me like an open meadow,” says Pico in the talk.One of the beauties of travel is that it allows you to bring a stillness into the motion and the commotion of the world.Many of us have the sensation that we’re standing about two inches away from a huge screen, it’s noisy, crowded and it’s changing with every second, and that screen is our lives. Sitting still is how most of us get what we most crave and need in our accelerated lives… A break.Taking a few minutes out of everyday, or a few days out or every season, or even, a some people do, a few years out of a life, in order to sit still long enough, to find out what moves you most, to recall where your truest happiness lies and to remember that sometimes making a living and making a life point in different directions.So much of our lives takes place inside our heads – in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation, that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.We all know that in our on-demand lives, one of the things that’s most on-demand is ourselves.“Many of us have the sensation that we’re standing about two inches away from a huge screen, it’s noisy, crowded and it’s changing with every second, and that screen is our lives. The best way that I could develop more attentive and more appreciative eyes was, oddly, by going nowhere and just by sitting still. One of the first things you learn when you travel is that nowhere is magical unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
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