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Leonard Cohen and the Art of Stillness: Pico Iyer on What the Monastic Musician Taught Him About Presence
“Going nowhere … isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.”
The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence
“For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing.”
Physician Allison Ballantine’s Short, Stirring Commencement Address on Living with Presence
How the hamster wheel of achievement and approval can cheat us.
The Theology of Rest: A Modern Sermon About Living with Presence in the Age of Productivity
“Rest, instead of being something passive, is actually an act of resistance.”
The Presence of Absence: Jane Dorn’s Haunting Photographs of Abandoned Buildings in the South
A poignant reminder of our impermanence and the beauty of accepting life’s cycles of growth and decay.
Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
“Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”
The Art of Looking: How to Live with Presence, Break the Tyranny of Productivity, and Learn to See Our Everyday Wonderland
“When you look closely at anything familiar, it transmogrifies into something unfamiliar.”
Dani Shapiro on Vulnerability, the Creative Impulse, the Writing Life, and How to Live with Presence
“The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it. To be birthed by it.”
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