Finding A Sanctuary, A Place Apart From

Often When We Think Of Exile We Think Of Destruction Or Loss. But The Dalai Lama Always Says Exile Is Reality, It's Something We Can Make Use Of, And He Has Used It To Get Rid Of Everything That He Thought Was Stifling And Old, And To Create A New, Improved And Much Healthier Tibet.

Death Undoes Us Less, Sometimes, Than The Hope That It Will Never Come.

I Began Thinking About Why Am I Constructing Almost A Shadow Father Or Ghost Father In My Head Into Graham Greene In Response To The Father Who Created Me? What's Going On Here? I Think A Part Of My Sense Is It's Every Boy's Story. When We Are Kids, We Imagine That To Define Ourselves Or To Find Ourselves Means Charting Your Own Individuality, Making Your Own Destiny And Actually Running Away From Your Parents And Your Home And What You Grew Up With.

Perhaps The Greatest Danger Of Our Global Community Is That The Person In La Thinks He Knows Cambodia Because He's Seen The Killing Fields On-screen, And The Newcomer From Cambodia Thinks He Knows La Because He's Seen City Of Angels On Video.

Living Here In California, I Think One Of The Scariest Things About California Is The Fact That It Is Rewriting Its Script And Changing Constantly And So Many People Don't Know Who They Will Be And Who They Will Be With A Year From Now.