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Learning from silence: Pico Iyer on the transformative power of solitude
Author Pico Iyer chronicles his 100+ retreats to a remote Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, Northern California; exploring ...
How Silence Improves Pico Iyer’s Life
How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...
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Years ago, writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a wildfire. This is what he learned
Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence, speaks to that experience. In 1990, Iyer was alone in his mother's house in Santa Barbara when a wildfire swept through the ...
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Pico Iyer Made His Name Traveling. Now He Explores Inner Landscapes.
“You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. By Anderson Tepper Pico Iyer seems to have spent his life in motion, shuttling between homes in Japan and the United ...
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The Japanese art of happiness: From ikigai, to ritual, to embracing old age
Jonathan Bastian talks with Pico Iyer, travel writer and author of “The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise.” Born and raised in England, Iyer spent much of his younger adult life in New York and ...
Pico Iyer’s new book Aflame explores silence and gratitude: ‘It’s great to be liberated from oneself’
Pico Iyer, in Aflame, reflects on solitude, gratitude, the necessity of silence, and interconnectedness, promoting a ...
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Years ago, writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a wildfire. This is what he learned
Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence, speaks to that experience. In 1990, Iyer was alone in his mother's house in Santa Barbara when a wildfire swept through the ...