If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.

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

Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.

A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

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