"Silence is something more than just a pause;……" — Pico Iyer
"Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think."
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Pico Iyer
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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