Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of….
Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly an….
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. An….
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politic….
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….
I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic..
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….
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….
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory..
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's act….
Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors….
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed..
That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits..
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 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….
The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a m….
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….
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..
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….
For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people..
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….