To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in. — 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
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
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
“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
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
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![“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/i/e0f/pico-iyer-1252_black_when-i-was-two-years-old-i-heard-about-h_2364775.png)