The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its researches into mind, and we have a lot that we can share with Tibet.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

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.