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

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

One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."