The Art of Stillness : Adventures in Going Nowhere (CD-Audio)

from patl

As happy as I am to see the popularity of silence and solitude for contemporary busyness, this book is like the author's TED talk: not particularly deep or engaging, long on memoir and short on application for the reader. Many better books on the subject exist, though if this book introduces soli...

from jobinsonlis

As a TED Talk, I'm sure this is compelling. Iyer has a way with words that makes old ideas seem fresh and exciting. However as a book this didn't leave much of an impact on me. I do believe in the power of quiet contemplation, whether through guided meditation or just sitting still for a few minu...

from

Any avid reader already knows the "art of stillness", and there is definitely something to it. That peaceful calmness of just 'being'. Ironically, I read this on a weekend (my work weekend) where I had a day of 29,000 steps, and a day where I was going from one thing to another and getting myself...

from JonArnold

I'm a sucker for the type of books that espouse a little slowing down, that tell us we should take a little more time to stop and not only smell the flowers but admire their beauty too. Iyer advocates that what we need in our modern age of constant connection that we sometimes need to get away fr...

from dazzyj

A slight book (well, to be fair, a TED talk) in which the author writes, in a somewhat ungainly way, of fashionable topics such as mindfulness, meditation and the modern curse of busy-ness, as if he is the first person to have discovered them.