{"author":"Pico Iyer","author_id":"Pico+Iyer","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["history","world","new york "],"id":31195,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["best","world","internet "],"id":32785,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["time","fun","world "],"id":46954,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present, is a pretty girl with her face pressed up against the window of the dance hall, waiting to be invited in; Iceland is the mystic poet in the corner, with her mind on other things. Argentina longs to be part of the world it left and, in its absence, re-creates the place it feels should be its home; Paraguay simply slams the door and puts up a Do Not Disturb sign. Loneliness and solitude, remoteness and seclusion, are many worlds apart.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["travel","travel-writing"],"id":67379,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"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, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["affairs","awareness","best","end","familiar","heightened","love","mindful","receptive","transformation","travel","wanderlust"],"id":81968,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["travel","wordsworth"],"id":93472,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["challenges","questions","dark "],"id":98088,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["travel"],"id":113823,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["time","me","think "],"id":120446,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"},{"text":"Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.","author":"Pico Iyer","tags":["fear-of-death","new-york-times","suffering","wisdom"],"id":121351,"author_id":"Pico+Iyer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}