Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

Travel is an act of humility

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

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

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.