Quotes by Pico Iyer

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…home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Home

Lying

Ties

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

Action

Christian

Thinking

[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, and still things get worse in Tibet.” If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn’t reaped any benefits. And yet, he’s thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.

Thinking

Views

Years

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

Mind

Rivers

Sweet

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

Holy Days

Littles

Thinking

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that’s coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

Distance

Loyalty

Mean

A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

Committed

Movement

Transformation

Adventure today means finding one’s way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

Adventure

Mean

Years

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

Like Love

Midst

Wonder

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

America

Country

Thinking

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Absence

Acceleration

Action

Advantage

Adventure

Age

Agendas

Air

Airports

Alive

America

And Love

Angel

Anomalies

Answers

Appetite

Attention

Autumn

Average

Awake

Being In Love

Benefits

Best Love

Bishops

Black And White

Book

Borders

Born

Breathing

Buddhism

Buddhist

California

Car

Catchy

Catholic

Century

Changing Your Life

Childhood

Chinese

Choices

Christian

Christmas

Cities

Citizens

Class

Comedy

Committed

Common

Communicate

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Quotes by Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer

…home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

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

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

A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

Adventure today means finding one’s way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

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

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

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