It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — 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
None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“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… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be… — 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
