Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you….
[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that..
That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits..
Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and….
I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American dreams are strongest of all in the ….
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man..
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..
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and w….
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I kne….
You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue..
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….
Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to ch….
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love i….
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention..
It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts….
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come..
When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were t….
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well ….
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of mysel….
Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars and 3D printers. But that doesn't mean t….
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on..