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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 40

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See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

Effort, Sides

Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes the wave is very serious and strong. But it comes and goes, comes and goes, and underneath, the ocean always remains calm. Tibetans have a saying: "If bad news comes to you listen here" (points to the right ear) "and let it our here" (points to the left ear).

Strong, Ocean, Thinking

Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.

Religious, Responsibility, Sisterhood

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

Live Life, Suffering, Desire

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Thinking, Focus, Welfare

In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

Moving, Men, Years

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

Kindness, Mind, Peace Of Mind

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

Meaningful, Everyday, Mind

The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours or a happier nation, the key is inner quality. Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace or any lasting happiness.

Things In Life, Lasting Happiness, Keys

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

Feelings, Humans, Human Beings

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

Buddhist, Independent, Ideas

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

Lying, Compassion, Reason Why

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

Practice, Meditation, Miserable

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

Moving, Mean, Mind

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

Buddhist, Believe, Understanding

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

Dog, Horse, Animal

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Religious, West, Harmony

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

Past, Attention

I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

Religious, Thinking, Compassion

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Patterns, Way, Affection

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

Thinking, Discipline, Behaviour

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.50, Penguin

The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.

Animal, Survival, Desire

Computers make me totally blank out.

Computer, Blank

I am just one human being.

Humans, Human Beings, Just One

Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams (2016). “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World”, p.128, Penguin

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