That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits. Pico Iyer More Quotes by Pico Iyer More Quotes From Pico Iyer In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction. Pico Iyer shifting borders world For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. Pico Iyer pieces soul home Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways. Pico Iyer creating home thinking 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 doctors offering thinking Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them. Pico Iyer destination important spirit ...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. Pico Iyer ties home lying The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Pico Iyer desperate seems way Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place. Pico Iyer wild-places safe morning In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. Pico Iyer acceleration exhilarating age 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 liberation knows It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough." Pico Iyer rare-person men thinking There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most. Pico Iyer matter stuff forget The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California. Pico Iyer buddhist california heart I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. Pico Iyer autumn rain sleep The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it. Pico Iyer problem running In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. Pico Iyer distraction age attention Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime. Pico Iyer lifetime two country Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology. Pico Iyer teach technology tools Travel is an act of humility Pico Iyer humility It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine. Pico Iyer changing-your-life wire car
