Dalai Quotes - Page 5

• Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

  Pico Iyer

  Kindness, World, Today

  Source: layoga.com

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• Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Doe, Lucky

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

  Pico Iyer

  Differences, Culture, World

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

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• I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Reality, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Thinking, Reality

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Thinking, Rare Person

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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