List of Pico Iyer Quotes

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Pico Iyer
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I began thinking about why am i constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into graham greene in response to the father who created me? what's going on here? i think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. when we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.
Running Father Home
I would now put all my heart with the tibetan people and the tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the chinese, and not say that tibetans are good and chinese are bad. and in my own life, i hope i would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.
Heart People Chinese
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.
Government Views Suffering
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.
Black And White Years Two Year Olds
The australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "no worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
Oddities Worry World
I think dalai lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.
Stress Thinking Practice
The dalai lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. but he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.
Meditation Helping Lama
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Tragedy Comedy Catchy
You rebel against your parents until you become them. one day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
Father Mirrors Parent
I think of the dalai lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.
Thinking Doctors Offering
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.
Powerful Mind Looks
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.
Loss Thinking Reality
  • Born: February 11, 1957
  • Occupation: Essayist
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