People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

As a leader, you have the choice to determine what you are going to do and how you are going to engage others. You can decide to act compassionately regardless of what the weather is - whether it is cloudy or sunny - or whether things are inspirational or not.

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

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

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.

A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

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