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Learning from Silence
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Pico Iyer
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“Reading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind.”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama
From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat
Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He’s not a Christian—or a member of any religious group—but his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence. That silence reminds him of what is essential and awakens a joy that nothing can efface. It’s not just freedom from distraction and noise and rush: it’s a reminder of some deeper truths he misplaced along the way.
In Aflame, Iyer connects with inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the monastery, even as his life is going through constant change: a house burns down, a parent dies, a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. He shares the revelations he experiences, alongside wisdom from other nonmonastics who have learned from adversity and inwardness. And most profoundly, he shows how solitude can be a training in community and companionship. In so doing, he offers a unique outsider’s view of monastic life—and of a group of selfless souls who have dedicated their days to ensuring there’s a space for quiet and recollection that’s open to us all.
Radiant, intimate, and gripping, Aflame offers ageless counsel about the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live, how to love, and, ultimately, how to die.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“Luminous...the author brilliantly illuminates philosophical insights about the nature of the self, the world, and how silence serves as a conduit between the two, often in elegant, evocative prose... This is stunning.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Beautiful… Iyer masterfully and lyrically shows us how we may need to find a new home–one far more solemn, communal and silent than our present one–in order to return properly to ourselves.”–Alain de Botton
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In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Z en Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one.
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Worth the wait
- De Robert en 04-13-14
De: Peter Matthiessen, y otros
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Kokoro
- Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
- De: Beth Kempton
- Narrado por: Beth Kempton
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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Join author Beth Kempton on a life-changing pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well?
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Incredible sharing of wisdom
- De Shelly Neto, RN en 11-10-24
De: Beth Kempton
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Is a River Alive?
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robert Macfarlane
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes listeners on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada.
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Beautiful
- De Emily D. en 06-18-25
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To Shake the Sleeping Self
- A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
- De: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Narrado por: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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On the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure - the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world - as well as the internal journey that started it all.
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Different that I expected
- De Sabrina en 02-21-20
De: Jedidiah Jenkins
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Shattered
- A Memoir
- De: Hanif Kureishi
- Narrado por: Art Malik
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a hospital. So began a yearlong odyssey through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home to his house in London.
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Honest, courageous and beautifully written
- De A. Clarens en 04-18-25
De: Hanif Kureishi
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Life in Three Dimensions
- How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
- De: Shigehiro Oishi PhD
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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For many people, a good life is a stable life, a comfortable life that follows a well-trodden path. This is the case for Shigehiro Oishi's father, who has lived in a small mountain town in Japan for his entire life, putting his family's needs above his own, like his father and grandfather before him. But is a happy life, or even a meaningful life, the only path to a good life? In Life in Three Dimensions, Shige Oishi enters into a debate that has animated psychology since 1984, when Ed Diener (Oishi's mentor) published a paper that launched happiness studies.
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On Mysticism
- The Experience of Ecstasy
- De: Simon Critchley
- Narrado por: Simon Critchley
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Mysticism is about existential ecstasy—an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Here, Simon Critchley explores the history and practice of mysticism, from its origins in Eastern and Western religion, through its association with esoteric and occult knowledge, and up to the ecstatic modernism of T.S. Eliot and others.
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Thank you Dr. Critchley
- De Kimberley en 04-22-25
De: Simon Critchley
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Memorial Days
- A Memoir
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: Geraldine Brooks
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz–just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy–collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.
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Uninspired, mediocre writing.
- De C. Tyler en 03-04-25
De: Geraldine Brooks
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Permission
- The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
- De: Elissa Altman
- Narrado por: Elissa Altman
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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After writing three critically acclaimed memoirs and a decade of teaching memoir workshops at every level, Elissa Altman has helped students face the elephant in every writer’s room: how to craft the stories that are most vital to them despite the voices that have told them not to. Permission is a master course, not only on how to craft memoir, but how to begin and keep going when you’ve been told you can’t, and how to how to give yourself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written.
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Exceptional storytelling
- De dana dunn en 03-27-25
De: Elissa Altman
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Stone Yard Devotional
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte Wood
- Narrado por: Ailsa Piper
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
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A profound inward journey
- De Kathlene barrett en 02-17-25
De: Charlotte Wood
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Open Socrates
- The Case for a Philosophical Life
- De: Agnes Callard
- Narrado por: Agnes Callard
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates’ thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life.
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Fascinating Philosophy
- De A. F. Davis en 06-10-25
De: Agnes Callard
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On the Hippie Trail
- Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
- De: Rick Steves
- Narrado por: Rick Steves
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world.
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Nice but a bit tame
- De Carl en 02-16-25
De: Rick Steves
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Beyond Anxiety
- Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
- De: Martha Beck
- Narrado por: Martha Beck, Maria Shriver
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
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Good tips on dealing with anxiety
- De andrea l vu en 02-18-25
De: Martha Beck
Lessons for a community suffering from fires
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The peace I feel listening to Pico
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Explores the poetry of fire and being
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this book is a balm to our wounded soul. in time of incessant schooling and breaking news we are all confused and lost. we have to step back and" smell the Flowers. and Pick shows or this in his special way the book is read buy Pico and his melodious voice contributes to the quality of the book. I do highly recommend the book.
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silence aflame
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The beauty of silence through his words
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Gratitude for Pico Iyer
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To find something you cannot doubt may be as much as some need to get to faith
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The title is misleading. The book doesn't explore "silence" but only talks about being on tge periphery of monasteries.
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