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
love compassion going-away
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.
age attention distraction
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
sometimes
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
travel wordsworth mood
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
stress people important
Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.
sitting-still mind relax
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
buddhism tradition dalai
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.
way desperate seems
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
writing anomalies letters
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
important spirit destination
Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.
thinking holy-days littles
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
lying home ties
...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.
gossip too-late appetite
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
thinking hands puppets
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.