Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any ….

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students ….

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them..

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether y….

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….

What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quick….

I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make t….

I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongr….

The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their n….

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now..

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it..

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug..

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow..

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequenc….

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….

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along th….

The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic..

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves..

Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're see….

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California a….

Travel is an act of humility.