The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)

by Pico Iyer

two sociologists found that Americans were actually working fewer hours than we did in the 1960s, but we feel as if we’re working more. We have the sense, too often, of running

“There is nothing either good or bad,” as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.”

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So much of our lives takes place in our heads—in memory or imagination, in speculation or interpretation—that sometimes I feel that I can best change my life by changing the way I look at it.

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