Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 8

• Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

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  Happy, New Year, Our World

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• There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

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  Lying, Heart, Reality

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• We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

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  Real, Tolerance, Enemy

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• Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

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  Brain, Energy, May

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

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  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

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  Discrepancies Between, Discrepancies

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• It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

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  Motivation, Spring, Giving

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• Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

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  Religious, Order, Dinner With Friends

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• I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

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  Spiritual, Attitude, Thinking

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• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

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  Honesty, Heart, Blessing

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• Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

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  Determination, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

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  Motivation, Negative, Action

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

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  Reality, Way, Appearance

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• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

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  Brother, Heart, Rich Or Poor

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• Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

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  Compassion, Self, Calm Mind

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• Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating
  negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.

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  Self, Discipline, Patterns

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• Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

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  Adversity, Sleep, Enemy

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• I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

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  Positive, Happy, Friends

  "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight".

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• When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

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  Stress, Worry, Looks

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• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

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  Independence, Emotion, Assets

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

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  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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• Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

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  Blessing, Effort, Action

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• The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

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  Mutual Respect, Contact, Greater

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• It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

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  Loss, Inner Strength, Gains

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Compassion

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