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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
[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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