Pico Iyer
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Nov 7, 2026
Pat CroceGUEST
I'm on an airplane with Diane on the way to Key West, and this is in the book, because in the book there is a quote a dharma or a teaching, a story, relative story to it, to bring it back, and then a reflection for you to think on, and then a three-word mantra, although you can create them yourself.
Pat CroceGUEST
And it's January 20th, I'm on an airplane, and I pick up the American Airline magazine, and there's this article by Pico Iyer, I don't know who he is, but I read this article and I see this quote.
Pat CroceGUEST
Most of our life occurs in our head.
Pat CroceGUEST
Memory, imagination, speculation, interpretation.
Pat CroceGUEST
Change your mind? Can you change your mind? I could change a body, but I never gave any mind to my mind.
Pat CroceGUEST
Can you change a mind? I can change my opinion, but can you change your mind? This was the query that got me, whoa, it was like a satori.
Pat CroceGUEST
What? Is this real? So I saw a TED talk on stillness by this Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
Stillness.
Pico IyerGUEST
This is best-selling
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
author Pico Iyer.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
Back in 1990, he was a young writer when this fire took all of his possessions, including all the ideas he'd been compiling for new projects.
Pico IyerGUEST
I'd lost my next three books, which were in handwritten notes, so I was sort of back to zero.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
How do people find the courage to leave the world they know and make their way to a completely different reality? On today's show, ideas about escape and renewal.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
Stories about getting away from the modern world in search of peace of mind.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
Now, Pico Iyer is an acclaimed author who writes about his travels all over the world, from Japan to India, Iran to North Korea.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
And throughout the past 30 years, he has found himself returning to that same hermitage over and over again.
Vishal KhandelwalHOST
Now there's another writer whose writing I love for its simplicity and depth.
Vishal KhandelwalHOST
He is Pico Iyer.
Vishal KhandelwalHOST
He grew up between worlds, born in England, raised partly in California, his parents Indian.
Vishal KhandelwalHOST
He had every reason to keep accumulating identities or achievements or opinions and things to show for himself.
Pat CroceGUEST
And it's January 20th.
Pat CroceGUEST
I'm on an airplane, and I pick up the American Airline magazine, and there's this article by Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
I don't know who he is, but I read this article, and I see this quote.
Pat CroceGUEST
Most of our life occurs in our head.
Pat CroceGUEST
Change your mind? Can you change your mind? I could change a body, but I never gave any mind to my mind.
Pat CroceGUEST
Can you change a mind? I can change my opinion, but can you change your mind? This was the query that got me, whoa, it was like a satori.
Pat CroceGUEST
What? Is this real? So I saw a TED Talk on stillness by this Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
Stillness.
Maiken ScottHOST
So you were on the plane, you saw the quote, you were on your way to Key West, and then what happened?
Pat CroceGUEST
This Pico Iyer intrigued me, this quote, so I went on and I saw a TED Talk by him, and it was about stillness now, stillness.
Pat CroceGUEST
I didn't know what stillness meant.
Pat CroceGUEST
I thought it meant you had to stand still.
Pat CroceGUEST
And it's January 20th.
Pat CroceGUEST
I'm on an airplane, and I pick up the American Airline magazine, and there's this article by Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
I don't know who he is, but I read this article, and I see this quote.
Pat CroceGUEST
Most of our life occurs in our head.
Pat CroceGUEST
Change your mind? Can you change your mind? I could change a body, but I never gave any mind to my mind.
Pat CroceGUEST
Can you change a mind? I can change my opinion, but can you change your mind? This was the query that got me, whoa, it was like a satori.
Pat CroceGUEST
What? Is this real? So I saw a TED Talk on stillness by this Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
Stillness.
Sean D'SouzaHOST
So in a way, this podcast was more about me than about you, but I hope it'll help you as well.
Sean D'SouzaHOST
And while you're at it, you might read the book as well by Pico Iyer.
Sean D'SouzaHOST
I think you'll enjoy it.
Sean D'SouzaHOST
I'll say bye for now.
Pat CroceGUEST
I only know in retrospect because I bought a journal on January 21st to start recording this.
Pat CroceGUEST
And I pick up a magazine, an American Airlines magazine, and there's this author, Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
Never been heard of him.
Pat CroceGUEST
And I see this one quote, Amy, I know you're smiling because you know him.
Pat CroceGUEST
That was it.
Pat CroceGUEST
That was the only thing that hooked me.
Pat CroceGUEST
So I went on to a TED talk by this Pico Iyer and he's talking about stillness.
Pat CroceGUEST
Stillness.
Pat CroceGUEST
It really, and that's it.
Pat CroceGUEST
Can you change your mind? And that, a quote by Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
I'm on an airplane from Philadelphia down to Key West where I have some business interests, the Green Parrot and Half Shell.
Pat CroceGUEST
And I'm on the plane reading the American Airlines magazine.
Pat CroceGUEST
And this author, Pico Iyer, never heard of him, says this quote, Mike.
Pat CroceGUEST
Most of our life occurs in our head.
Pat CroceGUEST
Memory, imagination, speculation, interpretation.
Pat CroceGUEST
And I thought to myself, can you change your mind? I can change my opinion.
Pat CroceGUEST
That happened, uh, 12 years ago.
Pat CroceGUEST
Start, it started, the first crack started in January 20th of 2015, and it was just this innocuous quote by Pico Iyer.
Pat CroceGUEST
Never heard of the guy before.
A.J. DaulerioHOST
Yeah.
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