The Less Conscious One Is Of Being

For Me The First Great Joy Of Traveling Is Simply The Luxury Of Leaving All My Beliefs And Certainties At Home, And Seeing Everything I Thought I Knew In A Different Light, And From A Crooked Angle.

Writing Is, In The End, That Oddest Of Anomalies: An Intimate Letter To A Stranger.

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.

In Terms Of Technology And Science, Tomorrow Does Know More Than Yesterday; But When It Comes To Emotions, Living With Uncertainty, Terror, I'm Not Sure We Know Any More Than Shakespeare Did, Or The Buddha. And The Power Of New Things - The Iphone Or Facebook - Is So Strong And Intoxicating That We Sometimes Forget That None Of Them Can Fundamentally Change Our Relation To Ourselves And To What Matters.

Most Of Us Who Have Been Lucky Enough To Hear, Read And See The Dalai Lama, Often Come Away Thinking, "what A Kind, Inspiring And Golden Human Being!" That Is True, But I Think It Does Him An Injustice.