When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.

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

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

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