Pico Iyer Quotes About Exile

Quotes about: Exile

• Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Thinking, Reality

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

• You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Opportunity, Benefits

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

• I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Reality, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

• I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Wall, Distance

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: scottlondon.com

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