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

Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

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.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

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

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.