The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

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

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.