Dalai Quotes - Page 4

• The Dalai Lama is my personal (and the world's) hero and has been for me since I was 17 and I first learned about him. His openness and acceptance of the world and his focus on others are constant inspirations for me.

  Nick Morgan

  Inspiration, Hero, Acceptance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Buddhism, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Lasts, Century

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Childhood, Lama, Has Beens

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.

  Tenzin Palmo

  People, Ordinary, Thrones

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

  Rumer Willis

  People, Trying, Lama

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you have an opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama, don't work out your camera or iPhone issues. Sit and a listen to what the man is saying, because nine times out of 10, you're not going to look at that photo. You're not going to look at the video. As a photographer, I don't carry a camera. I have my iPhone, but I don't carry a camera. I want to live.

  Xaviera Simmons

  Opportunity, Men, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Years, Magazines

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

  Pico Iyer

  Stress, Thinking, Practice

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

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• The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

  Pico Iyer

  Meditation, Helping, Lama

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

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• Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Moving, Thinking

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

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• The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

  Pico Iyer

  Waiting, Praying, Lama

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

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• I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Doctors, Offering

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

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• The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Heart, California

  Source: layoga.com

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• The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhism, Roots, Tradition

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

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• Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

  Pico Iyer

  Stress, Differences, People

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

  Pico Iyer

  Religious, Thinking, Priorities In Life

  Source: layoga.com

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• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

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

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• The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Catholic, Speak

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

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• I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

  Pico Iyer

  Powerful, Mind, Looks

  Source: layoga.com

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• [The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

  Pico Iyer

  Christian, Thinking, Action

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Effort, Heroic

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