In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found… — 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
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the… — 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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