Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian origin, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time since 1986, he also publishes regularly in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and many other publications...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWriter
CountryIndia
kindness world today
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.
writing parent anomalies
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
travel falling-in-love taken
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
opposites sometimes making-a-living
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
choices mind small-moments
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
like-love wonder midst
All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.
lonely loneliness people
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
kindness exercise meditation
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.
different sanctuary findings
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
perspective movement stillness
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
rain sleep autumn
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. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.
motivational book feel-better
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.
song home thinking
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, Wheres your home? I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.
way communicate
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.