The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure

My training and practice taught me that studying itself does not lead to wisdom. Rather, by self-reflecting, I needed to internalize what I had learned, try it out in my daily life, and then reflect on the outcome. That is the process that leads to wisdom.

We cannot have a more enlightened society if our habitual dynamic is a matter of one person, religion, or government trying to force itself upon another. If a more enlightened society is to come about, it must be based on a global conversation, an exchange in which we all act as spiritual and worldly conduits for the universally positive traits of

Tyrants do not arise because humans are by nature evil, but because society does not acknowledge human goodness.