Pico Iyer Quotes

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• In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

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  Thinking, Sitting Still, Age

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

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  Sitting Still, Age, Movement

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

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  Falling In Love, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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• And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

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  Inspirational, Best Love, Travel

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• Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

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  Wall, Moving, Order

  "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

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• Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.546, Vintage

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• Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

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  Opposites, Sometimes, Making A Living

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.

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  Dream, Jobs, Giving Up

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• For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

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  Home, Soul, Pieces

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• Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

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  Home, Born, Happens

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

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  Travel, Next, This World

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• In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

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  Age, Attention, Distraction

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

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  Country, Journey, Darkness

  "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Travel is an act of humility

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  Humility

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• Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

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  Travel, Home, Leaving

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• To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

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  Inspiring, Tunes, World

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• The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

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  Running, Problem

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

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  Different, Sanctuary, Findings

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• Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.

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  Motivational, Home, Mind

  "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.

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• A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

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  Movement, Transformation, Committed

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• Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

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  Adventure, Mean, Years

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• 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.

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  Sitting Still, Mind, Relax

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

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  Age, Acceleration, Exhilarating

  "How Can We Find More Time To Be Still?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

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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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  Distance, World, Should

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Book, Feel Better

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