I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our… — 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… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of… — 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
Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home… — 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
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26… — 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
I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances… — 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… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In… — 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
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
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — 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
Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country… — 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
I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do… — 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
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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
![“If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f75/pico-iyer-1252_arise_if-you-d-asked-me-some-years-ago-i-would_1443740.jpg)
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![“It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b68/pico-iyer-1252_chance_it-s-impressive-that-a-man-dalai-lama-on_1766880.jpg)
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![“[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)
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