Pico Iyer (Author of The Art of Stillness)

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Pico Iyer

Born

in Oxford, England, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1957

Genre

Travel, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent. As an acclaimed travel writer, he began his career documenting a neglected aspect of travel -- the sometimes surreal disconnect between local tradition and imported global pop culture. Since then, he has written ten books, exploring also the cultural consequences of isolation, whether writing about the exiled spiritual leaders of Tibet or the embargoed society of Cuba.

Iyer鈥檚 latest focus is on yet another overlooked aspect of travel: how can it help us regain our sense of stillness and focus in a world where our devices and digital networks increasing distract us? As he says: "Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at p ...more

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	The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere 3.73 avg rating — 8,273 ratings — published 2014 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer, Robin Desser (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 3,016 ratings — published 1988 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto 3.80 avg rating — 2,461 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations 3.81 avg rating — 2,017 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise 3.61 avg rating — 2,127 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World 3.81 avg rating — 1,907 ratings — published 1993 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells 3.97 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama 3.93 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home 3.49 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aflame: Learning from Silence 3.82 avg rating — 727 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: inspirational, love, self-awareness, travel

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“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
― Pico Iyer

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“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: writing

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