Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

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

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

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.

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.