For Citizens Who Think Themselves

Writing Of Every Kind Is A Way To Wake Oneself Up And Keep As Alive As When One Has Just Fallen In Love.

I'd Spent Thirty Years Visiting The Dalai Lama, And Twenty Years As A Journalist Going To Difficult Places, War Zones And Revolutions From North Korea To Haiti And Beirut To Sri Lanka, And The Question Came Up: What Does This Man Have To Offer To This World Which Seems So Torn Up And So Attached To Conflict?

If You'd Asked Me Some Years Ago, I Would Have Said [dalai Lama] Is An Extraordinarily Compassionate, Clear-sighted, Calm Human Being. But Now, I'm More Convinced Than Ever That His Political Positions As Well As His Spiritual Positions Arise Out Of Such Precise And Realistic Thinking That They're Extremely Sound.

There's So Much Visible Stuff Around Now, We're Tempted To Forget That It's Usually The Invisible That Matters Most.

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.