Quotes from Sakyong Mipham

If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

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

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

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

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

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.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

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

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

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

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

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.

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.