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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 57

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If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

Sleep, States, Distracted

Dalai Lama (2002). “Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

Friends, Keys, Order

Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Happiness, Attitude, Doe

You're happy when you help others become happy.

Happiness, Helping Others, Helping

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

Economic, Social, Theory

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

Buddhist, Buddhism, Trying

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Heart, Wish, One Day

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

Humanity, World, Compassionate

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

Kindness, Selfish, Winning

There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

Hurt, Compassion, Impact

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

Compassion, Concern For Others, Tolerance

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

Hurt, Real, Opportunity

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

Stronger, Grounded

Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of pluralism in all religious traditions. If we, the religious leaders, cultivate a sincere pluralistic attitude, then everything will be more simple. It is good that most religious leaders are at least beginning to recognize other traditions, even though they may not approve of them. The next step is to accept that the idea of propagating religion is outdated. It no longer suits the times.

Religious, Attitude, Simple

Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

Heart, Gun, Harmony

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Weakness, Indication

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

Religious, Teaching, Heart

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Kindness, Beginnings And Ends, Neglect

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

Feelings, Mind, Ease

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Spiritual, Practice, Use

The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.23, Hachette UK

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

Zero

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

Inner Peace, Mind, Body

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Determination, Hard Times, Appreciate

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2011). “How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Kindness, Helping Others, Love Is

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