Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself..
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In ….
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re….
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….
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….
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves..
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions..
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….
The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it..
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his ….
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?.
From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places….
Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're see….
With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequenc….
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow..
When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this m….
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get wo….
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime..
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….
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make….
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now..