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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 41

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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

Compassion, Best Effort, Done

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

Patience, Enemy, Conditions

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.129, Penguin

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

Mind, Suffering, Creator

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

Mind, Emotion, States

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

Light, Color, Soul

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

Attitude, Compassion, Mind

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.62, Penguin

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Life, Spiritual, Believe

The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, you cannot gain its value.

Religious, Order, Practice

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.

Ignorance, Attachment, Body

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. >From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.270, Penguin Books India

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

Children, Childhood, Resources

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

Hands, Waiting, Mind

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Buddhist, Freedom, Creativity

The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart.

Heart, Purpose, Life Is

The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

Emotional, Hands, Worry

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Compassion, Practice, Giving

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

Teacher, Character, Challenges

According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

Buddhism, Destiny, Hands

Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

Tolerance, Weakness, Should

Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

Ambition, Weakness, Want

Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

Ignorance, Light, Roots

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Sacrifice, Order, Leisure

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

Impact, Others Happiness, Dimensions

The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.42, Hachette UK

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

Believe, Compassion, Community

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

Thinking, Suffering, Hardship

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

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