Pico Iyer on The Art of Stillness

Enlightening Talks

If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Playlists of Our Curated Videos

Enlightening Talks

If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Playlists of Our Curated Videos

Enlightening Talks

If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Subscribe