Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 56

• On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

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  Motivational, Powerful, Effort

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• Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

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  Selfishness, World, Today

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2011). “How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

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  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

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

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• If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

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  Sleep, States, Distracted

  Dalai Lama (2002). “Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

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  Friends, Keys, Order

  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.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Doe

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• You're happy when you help others become happy.

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  Happiness, Helping Others, Helping

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• As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

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  Economic, Social, Theory

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• Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Trying

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• My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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  Heart, Wish, One Day

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

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  Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

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• We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

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  Humanity, World, Compassionate

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

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  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

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  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

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  Compassion, Concern For Others, Tolerance

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• To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

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  Hurt, Real, Opportunity

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• Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

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  Stronger, Grounded

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• Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

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  Heart, Gun, Harmony

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• More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

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  Weakness, Indication

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• It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

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  Religious, Teaching, Heart

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• Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

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  Kindness, Beginnings And Ends, Neglect

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• Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

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  Feelings, Mind, Ease

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Use

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

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  Zero

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• A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

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  Inner Peace, Mind, Body

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