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A catch up to Pico Iyer's article "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the sudden exploit of staying put and uncovers a strange truth: The more ways we need to join, the more we appear urgent to unplug.

Why would a man who appears ready to go all over and do anything—like the global heartthrob and Rock "n" Roll Hall of Famer Leonard Cohen—decide to invest years sitting still and going no place? What can Nowhere offer that no Anywhere can match? Also why may a long lasting explorer like Pico Iyer, who has ventured from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, believe that sitting quietly in a room and getting to know the seasons and scenes of Nowhere may be a definitive undertaking?

In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known drifter friars like Cohen—and in addition from his encounters as a set out author who decides to invest the vast majority of his time in country Japan—to investigate why progresses in engineering are making us more prone to withdraw. Iyer reflects that this is maybe the motivation behind why numerous individuals even those with no religious duty appear to be turning to yoga, or reflection, or jujitsu. These aren't New Age prevailing fashions such a great amount as approaches to rediscover the intelligence of a prior age. There is even a becoming pattern to watching a "Web sabbath" consistently, turning off online associations from Friday night to Monday morning and restoring those aged traditions known as family dinners and discussion.

In this period of steady development and connectedness, maybe staying in one spot is an all the more energizing prospect, and a more noteworthy need than any other time in the recent past. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why such a large number of have discovered abundance in stillness and what—from Marcel Proust to Blaise Pascal to Phillipe Starck—they've pick

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Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ TED (November 4, 2014)
Language: English

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