You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don’t go much further than that before extending yourself to others.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.