Pico Iyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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And this is the place where we have to live and where we have to find our comfort and delight and warmth.
And maybe because he was a monk, he seemed to be doing it.
He was just rejoicing in the cacophony.
It's a very shocking sentence, and it's a harsh conclusion for the book.
But I think the good times take care of themselves.
I, as a traveler, know that it's not so difficult to find fun and wonder and beauty in the world.
It's really the tough times in life that ask difficult questions of us and force us to rise above ourselves.
And that notion that it can be in the very struggle that you find your paradise is to me almost more encouraging and inspiring than to say you can find it on a sandy beach.
You know, in Japan, when I first went there, I heard, I think it's a Buddhist notion, that life is about joyful participation in a world of sorrows.
That sorrows are non-negotiable.
Unfortunately, they come to all of us.
But that doesn't preclude the possibility of joy and wonder and hope.
And the older I've got and the more I see that even when life is going smoothly, it's full of surprises.
Your house suddenly burns down and a pandemic closes down the world and a loved one dies.
And then happy surprises too.
I've come to think that I want and I have to find my paradise in the middle of my daily life, which is also reassuring because I don't have to travel across the world to find it.
I just have to open my eyes to reality and to see life as it really is.
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