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

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.