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
Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper… — 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
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
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
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
Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath.… — 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
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
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily… — 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
To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who… — 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
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
[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
![“When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0f/pico-iyer-1252_black_when-i-was-two-years-old-i-heard-about-h_2364775.jpg)
![“He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36c/pico-iyer-1252_action_he-dalai-lama-feels-and-i-feel-and-every_2591075.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)
