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Calm (Short edition)

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How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks – lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question.

With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time – how to survive in this modern age. Selected from the book Teach us to Sit Still by Tim ParksVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.

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Vintage Classics
1784872598 / 9781784872595
Paperback / softback
08/06/2017
United Kingdom
English
vi, 97 pages
18 cm
Originally published: as part of Teach us to sit still. London: Harvill Secker, 2010.