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Years ago, writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a wildfire. This is what he learned
After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, ...
Pico Iyer’s new book Aflame explores silence and gratitude: ‘It’s great to be liberated from oneself’
Pico Iyer, in Aflame, reflects on solitude, gratitude, the necessity of silence, and interconnectedness, promoting a ...
How Silence Improves Pico Iyer’s Life
How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...
I Lost Everything in a California Fire. It Changed How I Lived.
These days, I can’t stop thinking about the hazy morning in June 1990, when I walked all the way up our narrow mountain road ...
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Travel writer Pico Iyer seeks to spread the gospel of silence in latest book
When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just where to go. For decades, the British travel writer has been journeying from his home in Japan to sit in silence at Big ...
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Learning from silence with Pico Iyer on Access Utah
Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't ...
Hospitals for the soul: What we’ll lose when monasteries disappear
We’re surrounded by ever more New Age sanctuaries, retreat-centres and yoga-inflected spas, yet what will be lost if formal ...