You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — 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
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's… — 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