The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer Journeys

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.

The great artists and thinkers cultivate a systolic/diastolic rhythm, tension

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