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

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

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

You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.

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