Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 46

• Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

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  Animal, Giving, Might

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of concern for others. We need to nurture it. Scientists have found that to ensure even physical health peace of mind is essential. People often think that love and compassion are only matters of religious concern, but in fact such values are necessary in all human relations

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  Love, Religious, Buddhist

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• If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

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  Mind, Ifs, Powerless

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action].

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  Mean, Sacrifice, Order

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

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  Interest, Invitations, New Places

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

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  World, Loses

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

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  Buddhism, Negation, Absolutes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

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  Helping Others, Black, Violence

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• His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

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  Spiritual, Country, Holiness

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• I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

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  Buddhism, Humans, Promoting

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• One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

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  Failing, Description, Caught

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• 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.

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  Community, Fields, Different

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

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  Animal, People, Satisfaction

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

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  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Identity

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• I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.

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  Retirement, Commitment, Numbers

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

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  Men, Problem, Creation

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

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  Buddhist, Practice, Doe

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• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

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  Peace, War, Divine Wisdom

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• If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Atmosphere

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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• There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

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  Helping Others, Power, Views

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

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  Brain, Location, Cherish

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• Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

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  Mercy, Climate Change, Humans

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• Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.

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  Real, Hatred, Problem

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

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  Real, Pride, Enemy

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