In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction. — 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
I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific… — 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
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
I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.'… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions… — 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
Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars… — 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
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
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
“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
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know… — 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
One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the… — 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 teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. — 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 ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of… — 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
![“I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/708/pico-iyer-1252_accepted_i-wanted-to-bring-the-book-out-right-now_1219108.jpg)
![“He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/pico-iyer-1252_common_he-the-dalai-lama-has-made-it-his-missio_1718353.jpg)
![“I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb6/pico-iyer-1252_computer_i-ve-also-learned-from-dalai-lama-that-w_3197864.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)
