Dalai Lama Is Taking A Subtle And

I Like California Because It Still Has The Glamour And Romanticism And Exoticism Of A Very Foreign Place. It Was The Place That When I Was Young, I Was Raised On "i Love Lucy" And Listening To The Grateful Dead And Reading Jack Kerouac. They, To Me, Were All Symbols Of This Very Foreign Sense Of Promise And Movement. After All This Time Here I'm Glad I Still Have It.

The Dalai Lama Would Say That Meditation Is Something That Can Help Everyone. But He's Aware That It Can Be Misused Or Things Can Go Wrong.

I Often Think We're Most Happy When We Forget The Time.

Just As There Are Many More Californians Now To Be Found In The Temples Of Kyoto Or The Villages Of Bali Or The Mountains Of The Himalayas Than Ever Before, What Is Also Exciting Is That One Can Just Go Downtown Santa Barbara And Find Ayurvedic Medicine, Thai Restaurants, And Japanese Cars In Abundance.

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.