Pico Iyer Quotes
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To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.
It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.
Movement is a fantastic privilege ... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
When love is a commodity, you wonder why anyone's giving it away for free. Or what the hidden costs might be.
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.
I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us.
The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.
[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.
Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.
So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.
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 go wrong.
But it's only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
A man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.
As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil.
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.
Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.