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.

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

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

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.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.