Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

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

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

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

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.