Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed..

The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while pedd….

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have ….

I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good….

He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in co….

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still..

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more..

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher a….

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?.

Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever ….

I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think….

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world ….

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out duri….

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by f….

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions..

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious th….

Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree wi….

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours..

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down..

I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on..

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine..