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Dalai Lama Quotes
«Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
compassion, luxury, religious, stability, survival
«Everyone wants happiness; nobody wants to suffer. Many problems around us are a mental projection of certain negative or unpleasant things. If we analyze our own mental attitude, we may find it quite unbearable. Therefore, a well-balanced mind is very useful and we should try and have a stable mental state.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
analyze, balanced, negative, projection, projections, stable, unbearable, unpleasant, well-balanced
«The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
attachment, check, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, criticize, daily, hatred, in check, jealousies, jealousy, pride
«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»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
affects, birth, bring about, conditioning, contentment, core, degree, discover, human being, ideology, neither, question, social, suffering, therefore, think about, underlie, underlies
«Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
basis, difficulties, endanger, endangered, endangers, humanity, survival, survivals, tremendous
«Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.»
«Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
aspiration, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, exact, fulfill, grounds, innate, instinctive, Natural right, natural rights, sentient, sentient beings
«A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
altruistic, angles, complexity, connectedness, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, gradually, indifferent, inter, interred, irrelevant, outlook, relevant, various, wider
«I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
appeal, caring, cherish, dislike, friendly, heartfelt, lasting
