Dalai Lama Quotes About Community

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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  Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual

• Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Community, Inner Peace

• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Compassion

  "Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama" edited by Margaret Gee, (p. 71), 2001.

• As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to
  have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs,
  business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger
  community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as
  possible and as many activities as possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Requirements, Affair

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.191, Penguin Books India

• When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Community, Society

• The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

  Dalai Lama

  Family, Happy, Buddhist

  Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler, M.D. (2009). “The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World”, p.273, Harmony

• The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Responsibility, Roots

  "Inner Peace, World Peace : Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence". Book by Kenneth Kraft, p. 2, 1992.

• My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow otherworldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

• Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Community

• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Loneliness, Self Confidence

• I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happy, Friends

  "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight".

• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Peace

• Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

• Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Simple, Practice

• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Track, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Community, World

• The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Fields, Different

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Believe, Technology

• For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Initiative, Individual

• When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Community, Humanity

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Our World, Goal

• Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Compassion, Community

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