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

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.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.