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Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (Tamil: சித்தார்த் பைக்கோ ராகவன் ஐயர்; born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time since 1986, he also publishes regularly in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications.

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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Bring, Falling In Love, Initially, Parts, Time, Travel

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

Forget, Happy, Think, Thinking, Time

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

10000, Average, Girl, Hours, Month, Teenager

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, Flight, Heard, Two Year Olds, Ways, Years

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see. "

Hundreds, Iraq, Lying, War, Years

When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing sandals, Indian smocks, and are in search of enlightenment, antiquity, peace, and all the things they can't get in the west. Most of the people they meet are Nepali villagers in Lee jeans, Reeboks, and Madonna T-shirts who are looking for the paradise that they associate with Los Angeles - a paradise of material prosperity and abundance.

Angeles, California, Jeans, Material, Paradise, People

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.

Father, Greene, Grew, Kids, Part, Running

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

Appetite, Everything, Feasts, Gossip, Tend, Too Late

The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

Buddhist, Catholic, Lama, Says, Speak

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 with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.

Dream, Jobs, Giving Up, Complaint, Ones, Words

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

International, Lonely, Lost, Shy, Supposed, Wavelength

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Know, Knows, Liberation, Palpably, Road

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

Alive, Famously, Farther, Important, Thing, Writing

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.

Chinese, Government, Lama, Suffering, Views

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Become, Born, Happen, Happens, Home, Place

Writing should. . . be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent. . . and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

Anomalies, Message, Parent, Writing

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Being In Love, Like, Littles, Love Is, Marked, Setting

Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

Bishops, Dalai, Embodiment, Heads, Thinking, Tutu

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Caprice, Guide, Guides, Serendipity, Tour Guides

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Apart, Different, Finding, Findings, Sanctuary

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