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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. — Pico Iyer

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face. — Pico Iyer

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. — Pico Iyer

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. — Pico Iyer

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. He — Pico Iyer

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing. — Pico Iyer

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. — Pico Iyer

It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it. — Lars Iyer

If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ... — K. Hari Kumar

Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer. — Pico Iyer

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet. — Pico Iyer

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in. — Pico Iyer

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — Pico Iyer

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come. — Pico Iyer

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

... you could help people most by not giving them the burden of your heart. — Pico Iyer

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people. — Pico Iyer

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

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine. — Pico Iyer

Hello Kitty will never speak. — Pico Iyer

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

Movement is a fantastic privilege ... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to. — Pico Iyer

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered. — Pico Iyer

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic. — Pico Iyer

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

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer

Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it; — Pico Iyer

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness. — Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology. — Pico Iyer

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it. — Pico Iyer

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been. — Pico Iyer

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology. — Pico Iyer

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. — Pico Iyer

Travel is an act of humility — Pico Iyer

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. — Pico Iyer

Families are so important here," I said. She looked surprised. "They are not everywhere? — Pico Iyer

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you. — Pico Iyer

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession. — V. R. Krishna Iyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. — Pico Iyer

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today. — Lars Iyer

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester — Lars Iyer

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

Home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. — Pico Iyer

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life — Pico Iyer

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself? — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free. — Pico Iyer

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. — Pico Iyer

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. — Pico Iyer

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. — Pico Iyer

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. — Pico Iyer

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

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. — Pico Iyer

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that. — Pico Iyer

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder. — Pico Iyer

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand. — Pico Iyer

... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves. — Pico Iyer

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time, — Pico Iyer

Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..! — K. Hari Kumar

He remembered to leave this for me this for me. — Saiswaroopa Iyer

She liked it? 'I love it
the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot. — Pico Iyer

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it? — Lars Iyer

The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake. — Pico Iyer

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. — Pico Iyer

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about. — Pico Iyer

When love is a commodity, you wonder why anyone's giving it away for free. Or what the hidden costs might be. — Pico Iyer

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

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. — Shriram Iyer

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation. — Pico Iyer

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either. — Pico Iyer

Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime. — Pico Iyer

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. — Pico Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

It's not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them; — Pico Iyer

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds. — Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation. — Pico Iyer

I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder! — K. Hari Kumar

Reality seemed so paltry next to castles - dungeons - in the air. — Pico Iyer

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? — Pico Iyer

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

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. — Pico Iyer

I don't mind being divine. It beats being in a curry. I — Sreedhevi Iyer

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. — Pico Iyer

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

The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others ... — Pico Iyer

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them. — Pico Iyer