The Half Known Life In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

BATB score: 2/10 🙏🏻

oiiii such a waste of brain cells

Best to: you know that one uncle who went solo travelling around the world with his retirement money, then came back to every family gathering and could not shut up about it? yeah, Pico Iyer is that uncle.

Best as: "The struggle of your life is your paradise." - my struggle right now is uncle's travel diary

BATB lingering thought: better to watch travel vlogs on YouTube; okay, thank you uncle for reminding all of us to travel the whole (when we are young)

Best for: friends of Uncle Pico Iyer (66 y/o)

Best quotes: "Some are thoughtful on their way, Some are doubtful, so they pray, I hear the hidden voice that may. Shout, "Both paths lead astray.""

"Jerusalem had made as many skeptics of believers as it had made believers of skeptics."

"Bells are most moving when you don't know where they're coming from."

"All religions are different paths to the summit of the same mountain."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."