Dalai Lama Quotes About Meditation

• If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Inspiration, Mother And Son
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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

• If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Yoga, Love You
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  Sleep is the best meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

• When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spring, Yoga

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Sadness, Meditation

• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  Dalai Lama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Meditation, Inner Peace

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

• Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Effort, Meditation

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

• Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Prayer, Meditation

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Emotional

• ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, Mind, Delight

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.77, Penguin Books India

• If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, World, Want

• To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

  Dalai Lama

  Prayer, Meditation, Awareness

• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

• To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

• Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Moving, Illumination

• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

• Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

• The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

  Dalai Lama

  Light, Years, Meditation

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