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.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

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.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

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

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.