Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we… — 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
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National… — 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
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
'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
When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me… — 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 think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole… — 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
Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom… — 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
![“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/987/pico-iyer-1252_challenges_i-remember-many-years-ago-i-asked-dalai_2163417.jpg)
![“[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)
