Thinking Quotes by Pico Iyer

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time,

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I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our…

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Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,…

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More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious…

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I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way…

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I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going…

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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…

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For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in…

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A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

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Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.…

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America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country…

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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…

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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…

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In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction,…

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Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home…

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Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them…

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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…

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I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative…

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I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in…

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One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through…

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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,…

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I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most…

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I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do…

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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…

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I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances…

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Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a…

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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and…

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I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of…

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If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But…

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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The…

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I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American…

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Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's…

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I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they…

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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define…

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I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,…

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I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole…

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I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is…

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I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign…

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Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script…

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