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We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

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Real, Tolerance, Enemy

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

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Religious, Compassion, Tolerance

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

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Compassion, Challenges, Tolerance

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

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Compassion, Tolerance, Way
Dalai Lama @DalaiLama, twitter.com. March 7, 2013.

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

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

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

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Heart, Hatred, Tolerance
Source: www.motherjones.com

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

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Tolerance, Important, Virtue
Source: www.motherjones.com

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

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Hatred, Tolerance, Overcoming
Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.171, Penguin

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

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.

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Compassion, Concern For Others, Tolerance

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

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Sri Lanka, Tolerance, Foundation
Source: www.motherjones.com

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