Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
Pico IyerTag: travel
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn’t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.
Pico IyerTag: books
... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.
Pico Iyer...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.
Pico IyerTag: travel travel-writing
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
Pico IyerYou wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.
Pico IyerTag: world travel travel-writing
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Pico IyerTag: travel wordsworth
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
Pico IyerTag: lonliness lonely-people loneliness-quotes
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.
Pico IyerTag: lonely visitors wavelength
You go into the dark to get away from what you know, and if you go far enough, you realize, suddenly, that you'll never really make it back into the light.
Pico IyerTag: inspirational
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