Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 13

• Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

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  Ocean, Flower, Home

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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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• The enemy is a very good teacher.

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  Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

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• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

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  Pain, Medicine, House

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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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• The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

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  Kindness, Feelings, Nurture

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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 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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• 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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• Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

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  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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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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• A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

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  Real, Learned Person, Practice

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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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• 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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• 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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• Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

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  Exercise, Inner Strength, Stronger

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

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  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Giving Up

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• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

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  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

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• If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

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  Worry, Waste, Wasting Time

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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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• For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

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  Teacher, Compassion, Practice

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.75, 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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• Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

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  Buddhist, Compassion, Practice

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• The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

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  Real, Hero, Compassion

  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.122, Simon and Schuster

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