Doing Nothing Is Everything - The American Scholar
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Doing Nothing Is Everything - The American Scholar
Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer; Riverhead Books, 240 pp., $30 It takes hard work to do nothing—truly nothing. And it’s not just the effort of concentration and attention involved in staying still, but all that precedes the act: the years of training and preparation, the self-discipline you need to master, the path of askesis—the “labor on the self”—on which you must embark. When Oscar Wilde quipped that to “do nothing at all is the m…
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