{"id":183,"date":"2015-03-16T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/16\/the-art-of-stillness-adventures-in-going-nowhere-by-pico-iyer-uk-2014\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:39:07","slug":"the-art-of-stillness-adventures-in-going-nowhere-by-pico-iyer-uk-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/the-art-of-stillness-adventures-in-going-nowhere-by-pico-iyer-uk-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer, UK, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>This small book can easily be read in one sitting. It is not a novel, but it is a collection of thoughts on the necessity of stillness – the ability to go everywhere by going nowhere. In this day and age where everyone is constantly hurrying somewhere, it is a breath of fresh air to read that it is okay – in fact, it is encouraged – to sit all day in a room looking out on an unchanging view. The ‘all day’ is an exaggeration, half-an-hour is quite sufficient, but the message is the same: we need to be still to appreciate where we are going; we need to go Nowhere in order to go Somewhere.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs from the Icelandic photographer Eyd\u00eds S. Luna Einarsd\u00f3ttir.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Photo of Pico Iyer from\u00a0 <\/span>www.bostonglobe.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 This small book can easily be read in one sitting. It is not a novel, but it is a collection of thoughts on the necessity of stillness – the ability to go everywhere by going nowhere. In this day and age where everyone is constantly hurrying somewhere, it is a breath of fresh air … <\/p>\n

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