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http://www.onbeing.org/program/pico-iyer-the-art-of-stillness/transcript/7635
These areas seemed particularly worth pointing out.
1. Failure of intellect. Sounds harsh, but despite everything that rational knowledge has brought to benefit life for humans, it seems what really counts is beyond technical analysis; for example, Love.
I think that everything important in my life has not come through my mind, but through my spirit or my being or my heart. Everything I trust, whether it's the people I love or the values I cherish or the places that have moved me, have come at some much deeper level than the mind. And I sometimes think the mind makes lots of complications over what is a much more beautiful and transparent encounter with the world. So I suppose I've tried to run away from everything I associate with the intellect.