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 think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

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

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

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.