We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied. — 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
