We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.

Every moment of our life is important.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

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

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.