The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer Journeys
The philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
I believe that we can build something that offers people a chance to participate in these new types of experiences, punctuated by silence and other opportunities for reflection. And they must be offered—because they no longer emerge naturally in the world that we live in. In other words, people don’t naturally fall into them or opt-in to them. They... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it; I’d seldom thought of it like that. Going nowhere as a way of cutting through the noise and finding fresh time and energy to share with others;
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
It’s only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day. And it’s only by going nowhere—by sitting still or letting my mind relax—that I f
... See morePico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
For all the daily excitement, however, something inside me felt that I was racing around so much that I never had a chance to see where I was going, or to check whether I was truly happy.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
‘The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.’