Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 9

• If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

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  Fall, Mind, Body

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

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  Life, Spiritual, Hurt

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

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  Self, Enlightenment, Self Being

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• Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

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  Believe, People, Command

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

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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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• The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

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  Compassion, World, Pillars

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

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  Believe, Heart, Religion

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• Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Age

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• Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

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  Twenties, Violence, Firsts

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• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

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  Thinking, Way, Ethics

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• The world will be saved by the western woman.

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  Humility, Balance, World

  "The Dalai Lama’s Amazing Proclamation to Women!" by Ariane de Bonvoisin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

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  Responsibility, Needs, Helping

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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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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

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  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

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  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

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  Opportunity, World, Shapes

  "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

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• Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

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  Religious, Business, Buddhism

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• Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

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  Emotional, Clouds, Sky

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• We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

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  Differences, People, Wish

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• If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

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  Inspirational, People, Chance

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