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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 18

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To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

Engagement, Authority, Empirical Evidence

A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use.

Female, Use, Attractive

Source: www.sbs.com.au

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Kindness, Community, Inner Peace

I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Mean, Compassion, Rights

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.

Light, Years, Meditation

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

Spiritual, Believe, Buddhism

"Our Faith in Science" by Dalai Lama, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2005.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Suffering, Inner Strength, Wish

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.42, Penguin Books India

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Buddhism, Belief, Prove

The New York Times, November 12, 2005.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

Art, Training, Mind

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.211, Penguin Books India

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.

Meaningful, Order, Space

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

Self Confidence, Compassion, Concern For Others

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.

Responsibility, Compassion, People

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Distance, Flower, White

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

Lying, Compassion, Needs

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

Spiritual, Long, Effort

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

Tree, Enlightenment, Royal Palaces

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

Way, Problem, Harmony

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

Hate, Thinking, Politics

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

Happiness, Buddhist, Freedom

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Motivational, Spiritual, Buddhist

"Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

I feel many problems that we are facing, are man-made problems, we have too much emphasis on this secondary thing, forgetting our foundation. At foundation, we are the same human being and we are sharing the same planet. Six billion human beings' future is my future and my future is never separate from the future of six billion human beings.

Men, Too Much, Six

Source: www.opti-mystical.com

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

Family, Happy, Buddhist

Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler, M.D. (2009). “The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World”, p.273, Harmony

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Attitude, Compassion, Peaceful

The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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