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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing (Paperback)
Tim Parks (author)
£9.99
Paperback
352 Pages /
Published: 07/07/2011
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Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099548881
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 326 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"His journey will open your mind to the possibilities of mindfulness" -- Polly Vernon * Sunday Telegraph *
"Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh; it made me cry; and it made me seriously think about taking up Vispassana meditation" -- Will Self * The Times *
"A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop" -- David Lodge * Guardian *
"This is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about it" * Financial Times *
"A movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than breathing and meditation" -- Susan Hill * The Lady *
"Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh; it made me cry; and it made me seriously think about taking up Vispassana meditation" -- Will Self * The Times *
"A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop" -- David Lodge * Guardian *
"This is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about it" * Financial Times *
"A movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than breathing and meditation" -- Susan Hill * The Lady *
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