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In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
Essayist
Novelist
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
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He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world.
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I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.
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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
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Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
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America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.
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But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
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The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
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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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For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.
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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
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To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.
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A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
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In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.
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I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.
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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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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.
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