To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

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

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

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

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.