Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

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

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

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