The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

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. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

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 surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.