A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."

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.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

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

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