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I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.
Pico Iyer
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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
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Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
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