Pico Iyer

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

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

— Pico Iyer

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

— Pico Iyer

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

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Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them…

— Pico Iyer

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that…

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In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of…

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I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most…

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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

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“If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you…

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It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives…

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The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

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I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's…

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When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good…

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Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,…

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It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall…

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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love…

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Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater…

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Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,…

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Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

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I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going…

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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the…

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Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

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Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

— Pico Iyer