Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
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 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….
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more..
We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the a….
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..
Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to..
We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share..
Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago..
I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of….
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..
I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see wha….
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation..
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Wh….
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….
Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology..
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits..
To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in..
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of su….
For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul..
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply….
Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in t….