I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

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

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.