It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings by and about the Dalai Lama (ed. Shambhala, 1990) - ISBN: 9781559397698