Pico writing I feel talks to you in a very subtle manner, a manner in which you’ll learn a lot about things and yourself. And if your mind is allowed to take a trip to nowhere you’ll actually wind up in a place where your mind is allowed to wander aimlessly and once it comes back, you’ll find yourself refreshed and feeling like someone new. “The Art of Stillness” is a wonderful way to escape reality and to take someone to places they’ve never been to physically. This time the author’s thoughts and ideas became clear, and I began to understand this message.
Laying on my bed in total silence, not a sound being able to distract my thoughts, and my mind a blank I began reading the book anew. Sitting totally still, the realization came to me I must change I didn’t have to change anything about myself, I had to change the way I’d approached in reading this. If the book isn’t the problem, then the problem rested with me. From what I’ve read about the author, I’d anticipated getting much more. However, the book didn’t seem to do anything for me as it felt like I just read a string of words, sentences and paragraphs which have been put together.īut this couldn’t be the case as the book had promised to take me somewhere or increase my knowledge. When I began to read Pico Iyer’s “The Art of Stillness” I read it like any other book sitting in a chair in front of my computer. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many have found richness in stillness and what-from Marcel Proust to Blaise Pascal to Phillipe Starck-they've gained there."-Publisher's description.
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. There is even a growing trend toward observing an 'Internet sabbath' every week, turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning and reviving those ancient customs known as family meals and conversation. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. Iyer 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 tai chi. 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 Art of Stillness, 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 making us more likely to retreat. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age."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. 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. Iyer also draws on 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 making us more likely to retreat. 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. In The Art of Stillness, Iyer investigate the lives of people who have made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a Ph.D. 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? 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 Ghandi to Emily Dickinson - have found richness in stillness.
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