Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.
Pico Iyer: __nd at some point, I thought, well, I__e been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I__e spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you__e not really doing so in order to move around__ou__e traveling in order to be moved. And really what you__e seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you__e sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there__ this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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Pico Iyer: __nd at some point, I thought, well, I__e been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I__e spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you__e not really doing so in order to move around__ou__e traveling in order to be moved. And really what you__e seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you__e sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there__ this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.
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