“. . . some meditation—evening meditation—for about one hour. Then, at eight-thirty, sleep. Most important meditation. compulsory meditation for everyone—even some birds. The most important meditation, not for Nirvana, but for survival.”

—The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, describing his typical evening, quoted by Pico Iyer in The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 2008.