Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.

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

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don’t go much further than that before extending yourself to others.

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.

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