PinIn an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.PinMovement is a fantastic privilege… but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.PinI think it’s in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.PinWe travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.PinI’ve never meditated in my life. I don’t practice yoga nor any religion. I’m a tourist on the realm of stillness.PinHome is not just the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.PinTravel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.PinBut it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.PinWe travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
7 Pico Iyer Quotes on Stillness
“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.”
Pico Iyer
PinSitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it.PinGoing nowhere… isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.PinA man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn’t have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.PinAdventure today means finding one’s way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.PinAs soon as you do sit still, you find that it actually brings you closer to others, in both understanding and sympathy.PinA holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
6 Wise Pico Iyer Quotes that Will Make You Think
“To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.”
Pico Iyer
PinOne is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.PinIt takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that’s necessary…PinHeaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.PinWe have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.PinYou 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.
8 Pico Iyer Quotes on Traveling
“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.”
Pico Iyer
PinWe travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.PinThe beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.PinTravel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on”.PinAs soon as I’m on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.PinWe travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.PinPlaces have charisma, in short, as much as people do.PinMy Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
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