Category: Meditations

Aldous Huxley on the Noise of Desire

“The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desire — we hold history’s record for all of them. And no wonder; for all the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of […]

A Conversation with Author Pico Iyer

Patrick: You have some really wonderful things to say about solitude. In The Art of Stillness especially where you talk about it not being about turning your back on the world but fostering a more loving or closer relationship with the world. Could you elaborate on what it means to retreat from the world in […]