World Quotes by Pico Iyer

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

— Pico Iyer

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

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Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

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We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

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But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be…

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I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

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I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of…

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The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in…

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Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific…

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The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up…

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I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like…

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I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation…

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America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country…

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You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's…

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One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through…

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I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American…

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I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small…

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I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions…

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Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

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In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of…

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Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space…

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I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative…

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All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of…

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Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.'…

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Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;…

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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me…

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In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or…

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We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any…

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You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know…

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The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other…

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I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they…

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The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the…

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Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you…

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In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked…

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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see…

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“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a…

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I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole…

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He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to…

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I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held…

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Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars…

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