Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 13

• True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

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  Commitment, Emotional, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

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  Life, Karma, Spiritual

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• The enemy is a very good teacher.

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  Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

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• We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

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  Mind, Needs, Emotion

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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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• If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
  This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

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  Wisdom, Anger, Self

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

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  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

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  Fear, Real, Fall

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

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  Responsibility, Compassion, People

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• The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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  Light, Years, Meditation

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• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

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  Art, Training, Mind

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.211, Penguin Books India

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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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• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

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  Motivational, Perspective, Faces

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Be gentle with the earth.

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  Karma, Buddhist, Environmental

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• The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

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  Philosophical, Mean, Responsibility

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

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  Attachment, Perspective, Vision

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Feelings

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• Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Trying

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• Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

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  Trust, Education, Confidence

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• The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

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  Heart, Mean, Happy Life

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• It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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  Cheating, Prayer, Helping Others

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.103, Penguin Books India

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• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

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  Attitude, Loneliness, Self

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

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  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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