The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.