Absorption as a definition of happiness. "To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world." Traveling not in order to move around but in order to be moved. His friend Leonard Cohen. Stillness & silence as a recharging station for the soul.

Pico Iyer is one of our most eloquent explorers of what he calls the "inner world" — in himself and in the 21st century world at large. The journalist and novelist travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea and lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the discoveries he's making and his practice of "the art of stillness."

Pico Iyer is a journalist and writer. He's written over a dozen books including "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home," "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama," and "The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere." He has two books on Japan upcoming in 2019: "Autumn Light" and "A Beginner’s Guide to Japan."

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down

Bertarido/Rodelinda

Io t'abbraccio,
e più che morte, aspro e forte,
è pel cor mio questo addio,
che il tuo sen dal mio divide.
 
Ah mia vita, ah mio tesoro,
se non moro,
è più tiranno quell'affanno,
che dà morte, e non uccide.


I believe the publication of this track fulfils the criteria of 'fair use', for discussion and study.

Christopher Lowrey and Anna Dennis sing "Io t'abbraccio" from Händel's "Rodelinda"

Wandering

Lars Danielsson - Pegasus -/Tarantella (2009)/

Dreams Of Light

Taken from the bonus tracks CD that was issued exclusively to indie stores alongside Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's 'Like Water Through The Sand' album.  
The bonus CD comes in a cardboard wallet with full artwork, is limited to 200 copies and available exclusively through UK indie stores while stocks last. The bonus tracks are also available digitally via Bleep.

Like Water Through The Sand

Don't Disappear

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Don't Disappear

The Source Of Now (excerpt)

John Zorn - ahaha

The expanded double CD re-issue of The Licence To Interpret Dreams will be released late August / early September 2018. The original multitracks have been refreshed to give a new life to the album. Alongside this there is an additional CD, which features remixes by Marconi Union, Hummingbird, The Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Peter Jørgensen, Ben Chatwin, Ian Hawgood, Aaron Martin, Olan Mill, Bill Seaman, Field Rotation, Antonymes and Clem Leek. The remixes are very special and the whole thing has been lovingly remastered by James Plotkin.

This very limited album comes out on the wonderful Fluid Audio imprint and will include a 24 page perfect bound book housed in a heavyweight card sleeve.

A Light From The Heavens

Absorption as a definition of happiness. ”To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.” Traveling not in order to move around but in order to be moved. His friend Leonard Cohen. Stillness & silence as a recharging station for the soul.

Pico Iyer is one of our most eloquent explorers of what he calls the "inner world" — in himself and in the 21st century world at large. The journalist and novelist travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea and lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the discoveries he's making and his practice of "the art of stillness.”

Pico Iyer is a journalist and writer. He's written over a dozen books including The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. He has two books on Japan upcoming in 2019: Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan.

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down." Find more at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Pico Iyer with Krista Tippett

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/31/spell-to-be-said-against-hatred-jane-hirshfield

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Amanda Palmer reads “Spell to Be Said against Hatred” by Jane Hirshfield

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

[Unedited] Pico Iyer with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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