Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 54

• Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

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  Responsibility, Keys, Self

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• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

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  Religious, Commitment, Compassion

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• I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

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  Men, Use, Making Money

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• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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  Buddhism, Self, Discipline

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• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

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  Faith, Overcoming, Negative

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• The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

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  Reading, Mind, Progress

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.

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  Self, Focus, Anxiety

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• All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

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  Quality, Ordinary, Realization

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• When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

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  Motivation, Compassion, May

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• Now is the time when your action is practice.

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  Practice, Action

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• By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention

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  Spiritual, Morning, Motivation

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• Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

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  Thinking, Effort, Needs

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• I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

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  Compassion, Inner Peace, Degrees

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• With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

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  Attitude, Compassion, Genuine Love

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• 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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  Simple, People, Mountain

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• We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

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  Animal, Suffering, Social

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• Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

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  Responsibility, Keys, Survival

  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.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

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  Believe, Long, Feelings

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• How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

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  Quality, Source, Certain

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

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• Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

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  Reality, Hands, Noses

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• So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

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  Future, Hands, Needs

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

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  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

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  Practice, Joy, Inner Strength

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

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  Lost, Characteristics, Mediums

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

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  Jobs, Creativity, Mean

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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