Pico Iyer Quotes - Page 7

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• You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

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  Kindness, Exercise, Practice

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

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  Thinking, Doe, Lucky

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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  Thinking, Effort, Heroic

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• Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

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  Kindness, World, Today

  Source: layoga.com

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• The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

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  Love, Compassion, Going Away

  Pico Iyer (2006). “The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto”, p.336, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

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  Home, Light, Luxury

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• Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

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  Mean, Tolerance, Speech

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

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  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing sandals, Indian smocks, and are in search of enlightenment, antiquity, peace, and all the things they can't get in the west. Most of the people they meet are Nepali villagers in Lee jeans, Reeboks, and Madonna T-shirts who are looking for the paradise that they associate with Los Angeles - a paradise of material prosperity and abundance.

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  Jeans, California, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

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  Moving, Home, Community

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

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  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

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• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

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  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

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• With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

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  War, Lying, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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

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  Thinking, Views, Events

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

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  Frustration, Long, Suffering

  Source: layoga.com

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• Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

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  Country, War, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

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  Being In Love, Love Is, Littles

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• In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

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  Easter, Past, Islands

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• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

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  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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