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21 " What if?" points in both directions. "
― Pico Iyer , The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
22 " 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 change my life by changing the way I look at it. "
23 " seemed to arise out of his life of going nowhere—I began to think about how liberating it might be for any of us to give it a try. One could start just by taking a few minutes out of every day to sit quietly and do nothing, letting what moves one rise to the surface. One could take a few days out of every season to go on retreat or enjoy a long walk in the wilderness, recalling what lies deeper than the moment or the self. One could even, as Cohen was doing, try to find a life in which stage sets and performances disappear and one is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. "
24 " Going nowhere was the grand adventure that made sense of everywhere else. "
25 " Sitting still is a way of falling in love with the world and everyone in it. "