[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as… — 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… — 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
Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical… — 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
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
Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But… — 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
Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — 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 remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me… — 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
There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he… — 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