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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.

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.

Every Day There Are Small Moments When We Have A Choice: Will We Take In More Stuff, Or Just Clear Our Minds Out For A Bit?

I Suddenly Realized I Was Racing Around So Much, I Could Never Catch Up With My Life

I Think China's View Of Freedom Has To Do With Material Wealth And Modernity, And The Dalai's Lama View Of Freedom Is Liberation In The Buddhist Sense, Which Is Freedom From Ignorance And Freedom From Suffering.