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

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

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?