The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

You are reading this, which means you have a moment. And in this moment — which may be the only moment you actually have — there is something available that is not productivity, not achievement, not progress toward any goal. There is just this: the quality of attention you bring to what is right in front of you. Haemin Sunim, a Korean Buddhist monk who trained in the United States and has taught at some of America’s leading universities, offers in this book a guide to that quality of attention.

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has sold millions of copies in Korea and become an international phenomenon — not because it promises anything dramatic but because it delivers something simple and genuinely useful: a set of practices and perspectives for reducing the relentless mental noise of contemporary life and recovering the capacity to be present in your own experience.

Organised into short, beautifully designed sections on rest, mindfulness, love, relationships, and self-compassion, this is a book to keep on your bedside table and return to whenever the world becomes too much. Published by Penguin.