The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand. — 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
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
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
Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to… — 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
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
Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. — 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
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the… — 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
![“[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)
