Dalai Lama Quotes about Compassion - Page 6

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

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Believe, Responsibility, Compassion

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

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Confidence, Compassion, Inner Strength

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

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Believe, Compassion, Survival

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.93, Penguin

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

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Attitude, Loneliness, Compassion

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

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Compassion, Hands, Genuine Happiness

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

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Mean, Thinking, Compassion

It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?

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Love You, Sacrifice, Compassion

Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

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Attitude, Compassion, Faces

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

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Compassion, Training, Forgiveness Love

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

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Compassion, Always Believe, Humans

"How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize Every Day" by Mara Shapshay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.

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Thinking, Compassion, Hands

An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

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Responsibility, Compassion, Self

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

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Believe, Caring, Compassion

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

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Religious, Commitment, Compassion

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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Honesty, Compassion, People

Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

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Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin (1997). “The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra”, p.56, Shambhala

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

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Compassion, Seems

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

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Grateful, Compassion, Practice

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

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Motivation, Compassion, Benefits

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

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Inspirational, Heart, Compassion

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

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Buddhist, Love Is, Compassion

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

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Compassion, Mind, Suffering

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

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Compassion, Keys, Levels

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

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Compassion, Goal, Tolerance