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
The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,… — 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
It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me,… — 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
Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you… — 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
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror,… — 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
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