In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. - Pico Iyer
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
- Pico Iyer
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself. - Pico Iyer
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. - Pico Iyer
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
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 f… - Pico Iyer
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 f…
The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it. - Pico Iyer
The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.
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 … - Pico Iyer
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 …
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 th… - Pico Iyer
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 th…
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… - Pico Iyer
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…
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 wi… - Pico Iyer
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 wi…
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