In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
