Dalai Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Because of social media, we have access to amazing spiritual teachers. You can watch the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eckhart Tolle or any number of other masters. Their teachings are available and we must celebrate that.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.psychologytoday.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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• Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, People, Able

  "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 the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

  Dalai Lama

  Party, Lama, Hard

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

  Dalai Lama

  Should, Lama, Partisans

  Source: www.motherjones.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Doe, Lucky

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

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• Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

  Pico Iyer

  Kindness, World, Today

  Source: layoga.com

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• It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Thinking, Rare Person

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, 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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