Famous Figures

Song of Myself, with its celebration of the body, the present moment, and the equivalence of all experience, reflects a Peace orientation in which total acceptance of what is serves as both poetic and philosophical foundation.

Murakami's documented daily practice - waking at four, writing for five or six hours, running ten kilometres, sleeping at nine - and his explicit description of the writing process as a meditation on the contents of his own interior, reflect a Peace orientation in which solitude is not privation but the condition of honest work.

Berry's documented commitment to farming the same Kentucky land his family has farmed for generations, his refusal to use a computer, and his explicit belief that the local and the particular are more real than the global and abstract reflect a Peace orientation in which rootedness is understood as wisdom.

Dillard's sustained attention to the particular - the detail of a weasel's grip, the quality of light on a creek - and her documented practice of paying such close attention to the immediate that the infinite becomes visible in it, reflect a Peace orientation applied to the act of perception.