People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

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.

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.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.