Becoming Untrapped (Pico Iyer)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the past three decades, renowned author Pico Iyer has made more than 100 trips to a small monastery in California. Today, he shares what he’s learned there, along with other moments of beauty from his new book Aflame. He talks about why many of us crave a particular type of silence, how to escape the trappings of our minds, why a recollection can be more profound than a realization, and how he’s come to see the people in his life more clearly. For more on Pico Iyer, his books, and this special Benedictine hermitage, head over to my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:04.0	My guest today is the renowned author Pico Iyer, whose new book, I have to say, is quite prophetic.
0:12.0	It's called A Flame.
0:14.0	I'll be back with you in a minute, along with a longer intro than usual.
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1:01.8	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply at gambbleaware.org. Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread.
1:05.3	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. My hope is that these
1:12.7	conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all
1:18.1	collectively learn and grow. So first, I just want to tell you quickly about Pico. Pico, Iyer, is one of
1:26.8	the most beautiful writers working today.
1:29.3	He came on pulling the thread in January, 2023, to talk about his book, The Half-known Life.
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