Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
Pico IyerAny school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.
Pico IyerIn terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror, I'm not sure we know any more than Shakespeare did, or the Buddha. And the power of new things - the iPhone or Facebook - is so strong and intoxicating that we sometimes forget that none of them can fundamentally change our relation to ourselves and to what matters.
Pico Iyer