Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 26

• Silence is sometimes the best answer

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

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  Caring, Opening Up, Focus

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• First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

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  Buddhist, Inspiration, Firsts

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

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• You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

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  Determination, Self Confidence, Feelings

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• We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

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  Essence, Feelings, Suffering

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• Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

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  Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Billions

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

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

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• Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.

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  Inspirational, Trying, Each Day

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• I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living".

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• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

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  Success, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

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  Happiness, Spiritual, Purpose

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.28, Penguin

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• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

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  Inspirational, Buddhist, Brother

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

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  Spiritual, Compassion, Practice

  "Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living". Book by Dalai Lama, 1989.

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• The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

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  Inspirational, Nuclear, Source

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• If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Inner Peace

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• I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

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  Distance, Ocean, Flower

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• It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

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  Teaching, Essence, Discipline

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

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  Love, Real, Compassion

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• Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

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  Gratitude, Relation, Shows

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• My religion is kindness.

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  Kindness, Yoga, Religion

  Dalai Lama (2005). “The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

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  Peace, War, Reality

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• Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

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  Motivation, Regret, Adversity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.

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  Inspirational, Feelings, Action

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

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  Happy, Patience, Powerful

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• If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

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  Inspirational, Worry, Use

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