Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down
On Being with Krista Tippett
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How Would You Describe Your Early Life With Your Parents?
Both his parents were teaching philosophy at oxford university when he was a child. He would come back from kindergarten and there would be tibetan monks in the room. And of course, there were all the great myths and enchantments of the ramaina and a mahabato. Both my parents had grown up in british india, in bombay. They were steeped in shakespeare, english poetry and the bible. I think you have to explore that world before you can turn your back on it or close the door on it.
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