For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

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.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.