Stillness is the key: an ancient strategy for modern life
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TextPublication details: London Profile Books 2020 Description: xvi, 264 pISBN: 9781788162067Subject(s): Peace of mind | Control (Psychology) | Philosophers, Ancient | Philosophy and religionDDC classification: 128.4 Summary: Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it a<i>taraxia </i>and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.<br><br>Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows us how crucial stillness is, and how it can be cultivated in our own lives today. Just as Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey and baseball player Sadaharu Oh have done, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether building a business or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.<br><br>Stillness is the key to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world
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| 128 HUM A treatise of human nature | 128.2 HAW Letting go: the pathway of surrender | 128.3 WAT The book on the taboo against not knowing who you are | 128.4 HOL Stillness is the key: | 128.5 SAD Death: | 133.509 GAR Heavens and earth: | 133.9013 WEI Many lives many masters: the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives |
Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it a<i>taraxia </i>and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.<br><br>Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows us how crucial stillness is, and how it can be cultivated in our own lives today. Just as Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey and baseball player Sadaharu Oh have done, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether building a business or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.<br><br>Stillness is the key to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world
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