Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

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.

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.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.