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My Christmas Present To Myself Each Year Is To See How Much Air Travel Can Open Up The World And Take Me To Places As Far From Sheltered California And Japan As Possible.

Dalai Lama Was Leading His Country During The Rigors Of World War Ii, He Was In Beijing For A Year In 1954; He Was Up Against Mao Zedong And Zhou Enlai From The Time That He Was Fifteen. So He's No Newcomer Or Naive When It Comes To Politics.

I Exult In The Fact I Can See Everywhere With A Flexible Eye; The Very Notion Of Home Is Foreign To Me, As The State Of Foreignness Is The Closest Thing I Know To Home.

I've Also Learned From [dalai Lama] That We Make The World By How We Choose To Look At It. In Any Situation You Can Make It Constructive Or Dismaying, Depending On That Powerful Computer We Call The Mind.

We May Be Joined These Days More By The Questions We Have In Common Than By The Answers We Share.