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I Appreciate Any Organization Or Individual People Who Sincerely Make An Effort To Promote Harmony Between Humanity, And Particularly Harmony Between The Various Religions. I Consider It Very Sacred Work And Very Important Work

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I Appreciate Any Organization

Dalai Lama

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I Appreciate Any Organization Or Individual People Who Sincerely Make An Effort To Promote Harmony Between Humanity, And Particularly Harmony Between The Various Religions. I Consider It Very Sacred Work And Very Important Work

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Logical Reasoning

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Again And Again

I Think, That In The Twenty-second Century, There Will Be More Female Reincarnations At Female Institutions. Then There'll Be Competition Between Male Lama Institutions And Female Lama Institutions. It'll Be A Positive Sort Of Competition.

It Is My Dream That The Entire Tibetan Plateau Should Become A Free Refuge Where Humanity And Nature Can Live In Peace And In Harmonious Balance. It Would Be A Place Where People From All Over The World Could Come To Seek The True Meaning Of Peace Within Themselves, Away From The Tensions And Pressures Of Much Of The Rest Of The World

Responsibility Does Not Only Lie With The Leaders Of Our Countries Or With Those Who Have Been Appointed Or Elected To Do A Particular Job. It Lies With Each Of Us Individually.

All Religions Try To Benefit People, With The Same Basic Message Of The Need For Love And Compassion, For Justice And Honesty, For Contentment.

Anger Or Hatred Is Like A Fisherman's Hook. It Is Very Important For Us To Ensure That We Are Not Caught By It.

It Is Our Collective And Individual Responsibility To Preserve And Tend To The Environment In Which We All Live.

If Through Practice Of Insight You Develop A Sense Of Ease, Then Time Has No Relevance. If You're Miserable, Time Does Matter. It's So Unbearable, So Enormous You Want To Get Out Of It As Soon As Possible.

If We Had To Accept The Idea Of An Independent Creator, The Explanations Given In [several Buddhist Texts] Which Completely Refutes The Existence Per Se Of All Phenomena, Would Be Negated.

One Country ... One Ideology, One System Is Not Sufficient. It Is Helpful To Have A Variety Of Different Approaches ... We Can Then Make A Joint Effort To Solve The Problems Of The Whole Of Humankind.

As Far As Mental Development Is Concerned, We Should Never Be Complacent. We Can Develop Our Minds Infinitely - There Is No Limitation.

I Believe That The Time Has Come For Women To Take More Active Roles In All Domains Of Human Society, In An Age In Which Education And The Capacities Of The Mind, Not Physical Strength, Define Leadership. This Could Help Create A More Equitable And Compassionate Society.

Religion Is Like Going Out To Dinner With Friends. Everyone May Order Something Different, But Everyone Can Still Sit At The Same Table.

Dinner With Friends

Like A Lamp, Dispelling The Darkness Of Ignorance

Women Have The Capacity To Lead Us To A More Peaceful World With Compassion, Affection, And Kindness.

According To Accounts Of The Buddha's Life, It Would Seem That He Had A Very Deep Relationship With Nature. He Was Not Born In The Royal Palace But In A Park, Under A Sala Tree. He Attained Complete Enlightenment Under The Bodhi Tree And Left This Earth To Enter Parinirvana, Again, Between Three Sala Trees. It Would Seem That The Buddha Was Very Fond Of Trees.

My Enemy Is My Greatest Teacher.

The Only Clear Thing Is That We Humans Are The Only Species With The Power To Destroy The Earth As We Know It. The Birds Have No Such Power, Nor Do The Insects, Nor Does Any Mammal. Yet If We Have The Capacity To Destroy The Earth, So, Too, Do We Have The Capacity To Protect It.

When You Engage In Fulfilling The Needs Of Others, Your Own Needs Are Fulfilled As A By-product.

Let Us Try To Recognize The Precious Nature Of Each Day.

I Always Believe The Rule By King Or Official Leader Is Outdated. Now We Must Catch Up With The Modern World.

An Affectionate Disposition Not Only Makes The Mind More Peaceful And Calm, But It Affects Our Body In A Positive Way Too.

For Tibetans, The Real Strength Of Our Struggle Is Truth - Not Size, Money, Or Expertise.

Buddha Was Speaking About Reality. Reality May Be One, In Its Deepest Essence, But Buddha Also Stated That All Propositions About Reality Are Only Contingent. Reality Is Devoid Of Any Intrinsic Identity That Can Be Captured By Any One Single Proposition - That Is What Buddha Meant By "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism Strongly Discourages Blind Faith And Fanaticism.

We Are Born And Reborn Countless Number Of Times, And It Is Possible That Each Being Has Been Our Parent At One Time Or Another. Therefore, It Is Likely That All Beings In This Universe Have Familial Connections.

I Am Not Promoting Buddhism. I Am Promoting Human Values.

I Am Convinced That Human Nature Is Basically Affectionate And Good. If Our Behavior Follows Our Kind And Loving Nature, Immense Benefits Will Result, Not Only For Ourselves, But Also For The Society To Which We Belong. I Generally Refer To This Sort Of Love And Affection As A Universal Religion. Everyone Needs It, Believers As Much As Non-believers. This Attitude Constitutes The Very Basis Of Morality.

A Learned Person Will Become Noble Only When He Or She Has Put Into Real Practice What Has Been Learned, Instead Of Mere Words.

I Call The Light And High Aspects Of My Being Spirit And The Dark And Heavy Aspects Soul. Soul Is At Home In The Deep, Shaded Valleys. Heavy Torpid Flowers Saturated With Black Grow There. The Rivers Flow Like Warm Syrup. They Empty Into Huge Oceans Of Soul. Spirit Is A Land Of High White Peaks And Glittering Jewel-like Lakes And Flowers. Life Is Sparse And Sounds Travel Great Distances. There Is Soul Music, Soul Food, And Soul Love... People Need To Climb The Mountain Not Simple Because It Is There But Because The Soulful Divinity Needs To Be Mated With The Spirit.

The Affection Is Mainly Biological Factor. Then Further Sort Of Strengthening, That Religion Helps.

It Is Important Not To Allow Ourselves To Be Put Off By The Magnitude Of Others' Suffering. The Misery Of Millions Is Not A Cause For Pity. Rather It Is A Cause For Compassion.

Hatred, Jealousy And Excessive Attachment Cause Suffering And Agitation. I Feel Compassion Can Help Us Overcome These Disturbances And Let Us Return To A Calm State Of Mind. Compassion Is Not Just Being Kind To Your Friend. That Involves Attachment Because It Is Based On Expectation. Compassion Is When You Do Something Good Without Any Expectations - Based On Realizing That "the Other Person Is Also Just Like Me".

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