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“The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.”

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“I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school. I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.”

Ifs World Soul Self Country Seems School Natural Products Phones Planes Bags Globes Sensibility Typical Restless Airports Folds Multinationals Polyglots

Author:Pico Iyer

“To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.”

Knows Stills I Can Hard Home Age Moving Community Embrace Property Notion This Day Temporary Camps One For Me

Author:Pico Iyer

“I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.”

Ifs Thinking Made Different Country America Used Culture Speak Wall Ideals Tradition Distance Immigrants Privileged Homeless Exile Different Cultures Newcomers

Author:Pico Iyer

“Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.”

Thinking Way Home Able Values Creating Invisible Metaphysical Turtles Wherever You Are Snail

Author:Pico Iyer

“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.”

“We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.”

Men Feels Green Absence Grass Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Author:Pico Iyer

“Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.”

Found Car Mountain Exciting Medicine Restaurants Abundance Temples Village Santa Downtown Barbara Kyoto Bali Thai Himalayas Californians Santa Barbara

Author:Pico Iyer

“I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Kind Made Whole Challenges Greater Nice Havens Communication Limits Mass Available Whole World Restraint Mass Communication

Author:Pico Iyer

“In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.”

World Happenings Borders Shifting

Author:Pico Iyer

“Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.”

People Thinking Knows Years Facts Scripts California Rewriting

Author:Pico Iyer

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