He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant resp….

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come..

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….

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation..

From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places….

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger..

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….

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul..

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

I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Kore….

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 ….

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it..

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory..

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….

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….

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….

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….

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because….

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.

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..

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to..