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

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

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

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

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.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.