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How to stay relaxed on a plane: 9 tips for calm flying from Pico Iyer

on Mar 16, 2015

Pico Iyer is a global travel writer whose stories have taken him to the snowy mountains of Japan and a film festival in Pyongyang, North Korea. But the author of the TED Book The Art of Stillness is also a champion of the art of “going nowhere,” a contemplative state of mind that makes a […]

Pico Iyer inspires Oprah to have “the biggest aha of my life”

By Kate Torgovnick May and Cynthia Betubiza

on Mar 6, 2015

On this weekend’s episode of Super Soul Sunday, Oprah Winfrey asks TED Books author Pico Iyer to explain more precisely what he means by the word ‘stillness.’ It’s not so much about meditation, he says. “It’s sanity and it’s balance, and it’s a chance to put things in perspective,” he says. Like so many others, […]