Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere I am looking with sweet regard at this photo taken at the apex of summer on the pond where I live. It is a hazy, sunny day, but dead ...

Having lived in Japan for decades, the widely traveled and erudite, Oxford-born Iyer (The Art of Stillness) presents this lovely pocket compendium of oddities and insights of Japanese life.

(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger ... teachings of the monks, Iyer finds a “language of silence” that transcends doctrinal boundaries and a path to finding stillness amid constant tumult.

Such ideas may well have resonated with Pico Iyer during and after a devastating ... from some of his earlier works, such as ...

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer ... kenosis, Iyer relates how life at the hermitage perpetually vacillates between the rich stillness of contemplation and the ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents pioneering performance artist Marina Abramović in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6 at the Lobero ...

Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," presents his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence" at Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in the wake ...