Put this beautiful book on your coffee table or nightstand to leaf through and contemplate, but it’s got nothing substantive. Recommendation: Scan The Path Made Clear. “Luxury is a matter not of all the things you have, but all the things you can afford to do without.”- Pico Iyer, Essayist & Travel Writer.Pray that the challenges that come will activate your latent potential.”-Michael Bernard Beckwith, New Thought Writer “Don’t pray to have a challenge-free life.It’s the clarity of one’s vision, the courage of one’s conviction, and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”-Jeff Weiner, Executive Chairman of LinkedIn Letting go of fear is not letting go of life.”-Michael Singer, Meditation Teacher
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You learn how to interface and interact with life in a wholesome, participatory way. Like if you get on a horse and you’re scared, you’re not going to be a very good rider, right? But that doesn’t mean you let the horse go wherever it wants. Give the noise room to pass through and it does. A celebrated travel writer explains how to get there. “When problems show up, relax, and lean away from the noise that the mind is making. The Art of Stillness In a world obsessed with speed and rife with distractions, there are few things that feel better than sitting still, paying attention and going nowhere.Some of the guests’ thoughts are poignant and thought-provoking: Which a lot of hot topics Tony Robbins: Beat. Her meditations illuminate her passion-driven inner self: “Pay attention to what feeds your energy, you move in the direction of the life for which you were intended” and “Your life is always whispering to you.”Īside from the prologues, the poorly organized reflections of Winfrey’s guests don’t build up to helping find purpose and living it. TONY POD which designed for audience of The TONY ROBBINS, Oprahs SuperSoul Conversations and friends. Winfrey opens each of the ten chapters with a short personal anecdote of her hard work, persistence, and gratitude. This book is no more than a hodgepodge of think-positive sound bites from Winfrey’s luminary show-guests. This lyrical and inspiring book expands on a new idea, offering a way forward for all those feeling affected by the frenetic pace of our modern world.The title of Oprah Winfrey’s The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose (2019) is misleading. In 2013, Pico Iyer gave a blockbuster TED Talk. Ultimately, Iyer shows that, in this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many-from Marcel Proust to Mahatma Gandhi to Emily Dickinson-have found richness in stillness. GWYNETH PALTROW It is the only time I have that stillness. Meditation Bob: Hes got it OPRAH WINFREY The most engaging guide to a technique I have come to rely on. STELLA MCCARTNEY I am one-thousand per cent better when I do it. Growing trends like observing an “Internet Sabbath”-turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning-highlight how increasingly desperate many of us are to unplug and bring stillness into our lives. RUSSELL BRAND Bob Roths Strength in Stillness is so needed right now. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. He reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people-even those with no religious commitment-seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or seeking silent retreats. Iyer also draws on his own experiences as a travel writer to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. In The Art of Stillness-a TED Books release-Iyer investigate the lives of people who have made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left a promising scientific career to become a Tibetan monk, to revered singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk. There’s never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still. Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.