Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

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

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.