Quotes by : Pico Iyer

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed....

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of....

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives....

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost....

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all....

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far....

...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India,....

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry....

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary,....

... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have....