Leonard Cohen and the Art of Stillness: Pico Iyer on What the Monastic Musician Taught Him About Presence
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Leonard Cohen and the Art of Stillness: Pico Iyer on What the Monastic Musician Taught Him About Presence
“Let go of what is past. Let go of what is not yet. Observe deeply what is happening in the present moment, but do not be attached to it. This is the most wonderful way to live alone.”5
Thich Nhat Hanh • Our Appointment with Life: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World
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The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. —Alan Watts
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
“Is there something I can be doing to serve the moment in front of me?
Michael A. Singer • Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
Going nowhere, as Cohen had shown me, is not about austerity so much as about coming closer to one’s senses.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
Who among us would not benefit from a little pause, a little peace, and a taste of a boundless love that asks nothing of us—no beliefs, no dogmas—but offers itself freely, if we just learn to sit still and release ourselves into silence?