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‘You don’t get over shadows inside you simply by walking away from them.’ ‘As with any love affair, the early days of a romance with stillness give little sign of the hard work to come.’ Sitting still is our workplace, sometimes our battlefield.’
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‘Our (writers) job is to turn through stillness, a life of movement into art. ‘Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.’ ‘…not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury, nowadays it is often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.’ ‘More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.’ What else? You want more of Iyer’s writing. As TED books likes to put it, these are “small books, big ideas,” and as a quick read with reverberating depth, it really works. It resonates deeply and it’s evocative and moving words in their sheer simplicity ring true long after you have put it away. What we loved It hits the pulse of what’s missing for people swamped with technology today. Iyer’s book is a way to snap into the reality of the world you are inevitably sucked into, and a simple solution to finding your peace while living in it, without having to move geographically: ‘Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it….’ But the nowhere I was interested in had more corners and dimensions than I could possibly express to him (or myself), and somehow seemed larger and more unfathomable than the endlessly diverting life I had known in the city….’ Says Iyer in the book: ‘I couldn’t blame him all the institutions of higher skepticism to which he’d so generously sent me had insisted that the point of life was to get somewhere in the world, not to go nowhere. according to him, the best move he ever made. The back story Iyer’s father called him a “pseudoretiree” when he left his Manhattan job for the backstreets of Kyoto. The Read The Art of Stillness – Adventures In Going Nowhere