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
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — 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
It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — 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
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds… — 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
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
“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or… — 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
When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in… — 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 loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held… — 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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