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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Utah Public Radio4d
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 ...
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Literature Programs
How can silence teach us more than any words, and offer us a common space in an ever more divided and despairing world? Pico Iyer discusses his latest book, Aflame, "a transfixing mix of meditation ...