The Dalai Lama Says That When A

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?

Travel, In The Superficial Sense At Least, Is A Good Cure For Loneliness. When You Travel, Especially In The Third World, You Quickly Find That You Get More Friends Than You Know What To Do With.

A Holy Day, After All, Is A Day For Considering Everything You Otherwise Think Too Little About.

But It’s Only By Having Some Distance From The World That You Can See It Whole, And Understand What You Should Be Doing With It.

The Dalai Lama Says That When A Catholic And A Buddhist Speak, The Buddhist Becomes A Deeper Buddhist And The Catholic Becomes A Deeper Catholic.