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How to Be Alone

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In his new book Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer reflects on the more than 100 retreats he has made to a Benedictine monastery in the hills above Big Sur, California. Over the last 30+ years, Iyer, who does not practice any religion, has sought solitude at the hermitage for as little as one night and as long as a month at a time. There, away from cell service and the 24-hour news cycle, he has found that turning away from the noise of th…
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