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Author: Pico Iyer
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  1. Pico Iyer _ The Art of Stillness:

    One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you." Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek-and in many other places-has it, "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.
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