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

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

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

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

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.

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.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.