[Unedited] Pico Iyer with Krista Tippett
b'Absorption as a definition of happiness. \\u201cTo bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.\\u201d Traveling not in order to move around but in order to be moved. His friend Leonard Cohen. Stillness & silence as a recharging station for the soul.\\nPico Iyer is one of our most eloquent explorers of what he calls the \\u201cinner world\\u201d \\u2014 in himself and in the 21st century world at large. The journalist and novelist travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea and lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the discoveries he\\u2019s making and his practice of \\u201cthe art of stillness.\\u201d\\nPico Iyer is a journalist and writer. He\\u2019s written over a dozen books including \\u201cThe Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home,\\u201d \\u201cThe Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,\\u201d and \\u201cThe Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.\\u201d He has two books on Japan upcoming in 2019: \\u201cAutumn Light\\u201d and \\u201cA Beginner\\u2019s Guide to Japan.\\u201d\\nThis interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode \\u201cPico Iyer \\u2014 The Urgency of Slowing Down.\\u201d Find more at onbeing.org.'