I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on a….

Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding o….

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of su….

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love..

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about..

The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its re….

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would..

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….

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….

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

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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?.

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 ….

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

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 ….