Pico Iyer Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Thinking, Suffering

• I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Pain, Book

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

• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

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

• I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Thinking

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

• He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

  Pico Iyer

  Frustration, Long, Suffering

  Source: layoga.com

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