Author Pico Iyer chronicles his 100+ retreats to a remote Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, Northern California; exploring ...
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How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...
The roar of the highway was far below, and for most of the day, even amid birdsong and tolling bells, the main sound was of living silence. I’d stumbled, in short, into the realm of contemplation.
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Fog in a valley forest along the California coast in Big Sur. (Larry Dale Gordon / Universal Images via Getty Images) ...