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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 ...
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Pico Iyer Made His Name Traveling. Now He Explores Inner Landscapes.
By Anderson Tepper Pico Iyer seems to have spent his life in ... Books followed on Japan (“The Lady and the Monk”) and the “lonely places of the world” (“Falling Off the Map,” which ...
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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 ... I remember there's a great Zen monk who says "a monk's duty is to live on the edge of the abyss." And that's what my Benedictine friends are doing in Big Sur ...
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Hospitals for the soul: What we’ll lose when monasteries disappear
Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame ... ROCKS” and “FLASH FLOODS” and the update posted by the guestmaster monk online alerts visitors each day to treacherous road conditions.
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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 ... I remember there's a great Zen monk who says "a monk's duty is to live on the edge of the abyss." And that's what my Benedictine friends are doing ...