Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago..

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered..

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits..

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you g….

The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become B….

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred..

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….

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….

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between tempor….

Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in th….

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face..

Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enl….

I love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll see a stranger and you feel a….

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in..

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say..

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in a….

I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics ….

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time ….

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, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and w….