Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavel…

Pico Iyer
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.
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A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously se … ▶
In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. ✨ Pico Iyer (2014). The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, p.66, Simon and Schuster
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

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