You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

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

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.

The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.