To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in. Pico Iyer More Quotes by Pico Iyer More Quotes From Pico Iyer Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise. Pico Iyer dailyexperienceselfworld People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects. Pico Iyer my-lifedaymelife Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world. Pico Iyer meyoulovetravel One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. Pico Iyer alonenewhistoryworld We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home. Pico Iyer foolchangehometravel Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do. Pico Iyer shortplacescharismapeople To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath. Pico Iyer restmemusicbeauty A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. Pico Iyer classicchangeforeverbook The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be. Pico Iyer youproblemstruggletime
