We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

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?

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

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 knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

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.

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.