Replay: Pico Iyer shares Five Things He's Learned about the Art of Stillness
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“Long before the global pandemic, our lives were spinning out of control. More data and distraction than we knew what to do with. Less time to take care of anything essential. A post-human pace that we could survive only by not being quite human. As we prepare to return to something like normal, will we find ways to live at a saner pace, with things more in balance? What might help us keep both calm and clarity alive?”
– Pico Iyer, Five Things I've Learned about the Art of Stillness
Pico Iyer is the critically acclaimed writer of 16 books that have been translated into 23 languages – on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. Here’s the first five minutes of Pico’s two-hour class, in which he shares the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.
Five Things I’ve Learned about the Art of Stillness offers practical tips and insights for how we all can restore balance and find a saner pace in our lives. Pico draws upon 30 years of retreat experience, 33 years of living simply in Japan, and 46 years of conversations with the Dalai Lama to share his knowledge. He encourages participants to open up space in their minds and daily routines in ways that better allow unhurried moments and that bring about a deeper connection with what truly matters.
Ready to learn more about ways to immediately cultivate and nurture balance in your life? This class is for you.
Pico is the host of the “Speaking with Pico” series in Santa Barbara, regularly conducts interviews for the City Arts and Lectures series in San Francisco and, over 25 years, has conducted intimate onstage conversations with everyone from Philip Glass to Zadie Smith and from Martin Scorsese to Ireland’s President Mary Robinson.
His books include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. At the same time he has been writing up to 100 articles a year for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Financial Times and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His four talks for TED have received more than 10 million views so far.
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