Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place.