Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“You go into the dark to get away from what you know, and if you go far enough, you realize, suddenly, that… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we… — 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 taking a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
