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AUSTIN R. PICK was born in North Carolina and has traveled widely while pursuing his interest in contemplative practice and a love of the world’s wild places. He served as a contributing editor of Along the Path: The Meditator's Companion to the Buddha's Land, published by Pariyatti Press. Austin's writing has also appeared in Adbusters Magazine and at KenWilber.com. He lives in Chicago.  |
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So let there be no equivocation about statement, and if you think this is not hard to do, try it. You'll find |
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Remember the Alamo "All your locks are languidly tensile, like the broken radio towers we saw hanging from the buildings in San Antonio after the fires started, when they were burning the last of the gas from the police cars and singing in the streets..." READ ON >> |
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A Wider Rotation "Of all places, lying sprawled on the driveway and smoking a mint cigarette, the summer night air holding me to the earth, asphalt warm against my back, I suddenly became aware of the almost imperceptible rotation of the planet." READ ON >> |
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Six Months on the Subcontinent From Himalayan highlands to tropical backwaters, Shauna and I immersed ourselves in the dynamic lands and cultures of South Asia. More an encounter than a destination, India offers all of itself with shocking immediacy, and a journey there is truly a traveler’s rite of passage. These dispatches document ours... |
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Tales from Turtle Island After graduating from college in 2004, I set off to adventure around North America for a year with no a real plan at all, living in a van and following the emerging vectors between meditation centers, friends and fellow travelers, mountains and wildlands, work, whim and intimation. This series chronicles my year on the road... |
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My nourishment is refined from the ongoing circus of the mind in motion. |
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RECENT ADDITIONS
Getting Out of Your Own Way
Interview with Chris Wood Under the Spell of Ancient Deities
11 Days in Kathmandu Circling the Abode of Snow
20 days trekking in the Himalayas Billion People in a Coconut Shell
Afloat in Southwestern India Wobbling Your Head at Me?
Travels in Western India |
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Along the Path: |
I served as a contributing editor on this unique travel guide for India and Nepal. Now available from Pariyatti Press. |
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"A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy is impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us to imaginatively identify with a character’s pain, then we might also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple." —David Foster Wallace |
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