The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.