Pico Iyer Quotes - Page 4

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• For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

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  Song, Home, Thinking

  "Where is home?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional and moral challenges that you would never have to confront at home. So I like going out in search of moral and emotional adventure which throws me back upon myself and forces me to reconsider my assumptions and the things I took for granted. It sends me back a different person.

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  Adventure, Home, Emotional

  Source: scottlondon.com

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

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  Racing

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• Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people.

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  Country, People, Able

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

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  Wall, Reality, Years

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

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

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  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

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  Thinking, Bishops, Embodiment

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

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• The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

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  Writing, Conscious

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• For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

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  Thinking, Hands, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 24, 2011

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• The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

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  Machines, Use, Information

  "The Joy of Quiet" by Pico Iyer, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 2011.

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• The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its researches into mind, and we have a lot that we can share with Tibet.

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  Mind, Research, World

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Loss, Opportunity, Benefits

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

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  Loss, Thinking, Reality

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

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• I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

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  Powerful, Mind, Looks

  Source: layoga.com

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• I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

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  Heart, People, Chinese

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

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• When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

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  Black And White, Years, Two Year Olds

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

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• That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

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  Benefits, Advantage, Foreigners

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

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  Thinking, Years, California

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

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  Tragedy, Comedy, Catchy

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

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  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

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  Sometimes

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• I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school. I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.

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  Country, School, Airports

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

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  People, Community, Likes

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.

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  Loneliness, World, Superficial

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

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  Government, Quality, Tunes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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