I Often Think We're Most Happy When

Travel Is Not Really About Leaving Our Homes, But Leaving Our Habits.

Destinations Are Less Important Than The Spirit You Bring To Them.

Dalai Lama Is Taking A Subtle And Nuanced View Of Politics And He Is Thinking In Terms Of Events Well Beyond Our Lifetime.

Dalai Lama Is Transforming Those Criteria - And The Whole Way Of Conducting Politics. He's Conducting Politics In A Much Deeper Way Than Most Politicians Are Able To. He's The Only Politician I Know Of Who's A Monk. The Pope, Of Course, Is In A Similar Position, But The Pope Isn't In The Same Way Leading A Country Of Many Million People.

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.