Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 28

• Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

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  Peace, Passion, World

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• To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

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  Running, Self, Long

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• Compassion
  is not helpless
  pity, but an
  awareness and
  determination
  that demands
  action.

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  Determination, Compassion, Demand

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• By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

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  Kindness, Selfishness, Problem

  "Ahimsa : The Yoga of Non-Injury Will Set You Free" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2011.

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

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  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

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  Sympathy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

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  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

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  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

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• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

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  Lonely, Attitude, Frustration

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• When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

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  Thinking, People, Important

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• Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

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  Buddhist, Silly, Simple

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• The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Essence

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

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  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

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  Change, Suffering, Three

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• A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

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  Calm Mind, Helping, Situation

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• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

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  Exercise, Independence, Mind

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• Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.

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  Real, Self Confidence, Pride

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• Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

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  Mean, Serious, Forget

  "Dalai Lama Suggests Osama Bin Laden's Death Was Justified" by Mitchell Landsberg, articles.latimes.com. May 04, 2011.

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• Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

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  Iron, Negative, Rust

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.282, Penguin Books India

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• Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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  Keys, Principles, Moral

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• 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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  Inspirational, Regret, Goal

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

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• So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

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  Buddhist, Long, Tendencies

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• 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.

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  Community, Requirements, Affair

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

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• Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.

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  Opportunity, Miracle, Challenges

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• However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.

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  Sick, Diversity, People

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