The Art of Stillness Adventures in Going Nowhere
eAudio - 2014
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? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. 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 singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several...
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Simon & Schuster Audio / TED
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 39 GB |
Parts | 2 |
ISBN | 9781442375857 |
Release Date | 11/4/2014 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 39 GB |
ISBN | 9781442375857 |
Release Date | 11/4/2014 |