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
I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been. — 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
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
In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction. — 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
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
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
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
You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through… — 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 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
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — 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
To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in. — 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
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
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
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 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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