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

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

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

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.