The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Iyer PicoPevná vazba
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Iyer PicoPevná vazba A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and…
Specifikacia The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Iyer PicoPevná vazba
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Iyer PicoPevná vazba
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 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? There's never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still.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 Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy.
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