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I Have Found That The Greatest Degree Of Inner Tranquility Comes From The Development Of Love And Compassion. The More We Care For The Happiness Of Others, The Greater Is Our Own Sense Of Well-being. Cultivating A Close, Warmhearted Feeling For Others Automatically Puts The Mind At Ease. It Is The Ultimate Source Of Success In Life.

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I Have Found That

Dalai Lama

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I Have Found That The Greatest Degree Of Inner Tranquility Comes From The Development Of Love And Compassion. The More We Care For The Happiness Of Others, The Greater Is Our Own Sense Of Well-being. Cultivating A Close, Warmhearted Feeling For Others Automatically Puts The Mind At Ease. It Is The Ultimate Source Of Success In Life.

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Lasting Happiness

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Thinking Of You

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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 Need To Learn How To Want What We Have Not To Have What We Want In Order To Get Steady And Stable Happiness

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At A Fundamental Level, As Human Beings, We Are All The Same; Each One Of Us Aspires To Happiness And Each One Of Us Does Not Wish To Suffer. This Is Why, Whenever I Have The Opportunity, I Try To Draw People's Attention To What As Members Of The Human Family We Have In Common And The Deeply Interconnected Nature Of Our Existence And Welfare.

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Suffering Of Others

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Good Human Being

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Whatever The Intellectual Quality Of The Education Given Our Children, It Is Vital That It Include Elements Of Love And Compassion, For Nothing Guarantees That Knowledge Alone Will Be Truly Useful To Human Beings.

Guarantees That

Now You Are On The Buddhist Way. Keep Up Your Meditation, As There Is No Instant Illumination. The Mind Moves Slowly Into This. Do Not Become Attached To Your Method. When, In The Course Of Your Meditation, Your Consciousness Will Have Expanded And Been Transformed, You Will Then Recognize That All The Ways Are Valid Ways.

I Want To Say, Without Hesitation, The Purpose Of Our Life Is Happiness.

If You Don't Love Yourself, You Cannot Love Others. You Will Not Be Able To Love Others. If You Have No Compassion For Yourself Then You Are Not Able Of Developing Compassion For Others.

I Consider Myself As A Free Spokesman For The People.

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.

If Your Own Mental Attitude Is Correct, Even If You Remain In A Hostile Atmosphere, You Feel Happy.

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

We All Have The Potential To Show Others Love And Affection, But As We Progress In Our Materialistic World, These Values Tend To Remain Dormant. We Can Develop Them On The Basis Of Common Sense, Common Experience And Scientific Findings. The Response To The Recent Tragedy In The Philippines Is An Example Of How Such Values Are Awakened; People Helped Simply Because Others Are Suffering And In Need Of Support.

People Think Of Animals As If They Were Vegetables, And That Is Not Right. We Have To Change The Way People Think About Animals. I Encourage The Tibetan People And All People To Move Toward A Vegetarian Diet That Doesn’t Cause Suffering.

Do Something That Scares You Every Day. You Have Nothing To Lose But Fear Itself.

Nothing To Lose

Nothing Comes Into Being Without A Cause And When All The Conditions Are Created, There Is Nothing That Can Prevent The Consequence.

The Way To Overcome Negative Thoughts And Destructive Emotions Is To Develop Opposing, Positive Emotions That Are Stronger And More Powerful.

In Today's Highly Interdependent World, Individuals And Nations Can No Longer Resolve Many Of Their Problems By Themselves. We Need One Another. It Is Our Collective And Individual Responsibility To Protect And Nurture The Global Family, To Support Its Weaker Members, And To Preserve And Tend To The Environment In Which We All Live.

My Earnest Request Is That You Practice Love And Kindness Whether You Believe In A Religion Or Not

Cats, Dogs, And Some I Mean, Birds, Many Species Of Mammals, They Also Have The Sort Of Potential To Show Affection Firstly Because Of The Biological Factor.

Peace Does Not Mean An Absence Of Conflicts; Differences Will Always Be There. Peace Means Solving These Differences Through Peaceful Means; Through Dialogue, Education, Knowledge; And Through Humane Ways.

The Nature Of Our Motivation Determines The Character Of Our Work.

Material Objects Give Rise To Physical Happiness, While Spiritual Development Gives Rise To Mental Happiness. Since We Experience Both Physical And Mental Happiness, We Need Both Material And Spiritual Development. This Is Why, For Our Own Good And That Of Society We Need To Balance Material Progress With Inner Development.

Look At Children... If They Feel Angry With Someone, They Express It, And Then It Is Finished. They Can Still Play With That Person The Following Day.

There Are Only Two Days In The Year That Nothing Can Be Done. One Is Called Yesterday And The Other Is Called Tomorrow. Today Is The Right Day To Love, Believe, Do And Mostly Live.

We All Wish To Live A Happy Life. In Addition, We All Have The Same Right To Fulfil This Goal. And We All Have The Potential To Do So For The Simple Reason That Future Is Not Fixed, It Can Be Changed. Therefore, We Should Live In Hope That We Really Can Overcome Whatever Problems We Face.

If You Shift Your Focus From Yourself To Others, Extend Your Concern To Others, And Cultivate The Thought Of Caring For The Well Being Of Others, Then This Will Have The Immediate Effect Of Opening Up Your Life And Helping You To Reach Out.

The Essence Of Any Religion Is Good Heart. Sometimes I Call Love And Compassion A Universal Religion. This Is My Religion.

The Laws Of Reasoning Consist Of The Ground, The Path, And The Result. ...suffering Is In The Mind. How We Perceive Happiness Determines Our Suffering Or Not.

To Be In Flow Means To Be Totally Absorbed In Whatever One Is Doing At The Moment. It Occurs When One Is Fully Present And Completely Focused On The Task At Hand...flow Can Occur During Any Human Activity, Whether Work Or At Play.

Once A Year Go Somewhere You Have Never Been Before.

Travel The World

Dangerous Consequences Will Follow When Politicians And Rulers Forget Moral Principles. Whether We Believe In God Or Karma, Ethics Is The Foundation Of Every Religion.

Chairman Mao Once Said That Political Power Comes From The Barrel Of A Gun. He Was Only Partly Right: Power That Comes From The Barrel Of A Gun Can Be Effective Only For A Short Time. In The End, Peoples Love For Truth, Justice, Freedom, And Democracy Will Triumph. No Matter What Governments Do, The Human Spirit Will Always Prevail.

When We Think Carefully, We See That The Brief Elation We Experience When Appeasing Sensual Impulses May Not Be Very Different From What The Drug Addict Feels When Indulging His Or Her Habit. Temporary Relief Is Soon Followed By A Craving For More. And In Just The Same Way That Taking Drugs In The End Only Causes Trouble, So, Too, Does Much Of What We Undertake To Fulfill Our Immediate Sensory Desires.

I Think Governments Can't Do Much.

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.

We Have To Make A Sustained Effort, Again And Again, To Cultivate The Positive Aspects Within Us.

Again And Again

Forget The Failures. Keep The Lessons.

Every Day, Think As You Wake Up, Today I Am Fortunate To Be Alive, I Have A Precious Human Life, I Am Not Going To Waste It. I Am Going To Use All My Energies To Develop Myself, To Expand My Heart Out To Others; To Achieve Enlightenment For The Benefit Of All Beings. I Am Going To Have Kind Thoughts Towards Others, I Am Not Going To Get Angry Or Think Badly About Others. I Am Going To Benefit Others As Much As I Can.

Everyone Wants To Be Happy; Happiness Is A Right. And While On A Secondary Level Differences Exist Of Nationality, Faith, Family Background, Social Status And So On, More Important Is That On A Human Level We Are The Same. None Of Us Wants To Face Problems, And Yet We Create Them By Stressing Our Differences. If We See Each Other Just As Fellow Human Beings, There'll Be No Basis For Fighting Or Conflict Between Us.

I Believe All Suffering Is Caused By Ignorance. People Inflict Pain On Others In The Selfish Pursuit Of Their Happiness Or Satisfaction. Yet True Happiness Comes From A Sense Of Inner Peace And Contentment, Which In Turn Must Be Achieved Through The Cultivation Of Altruism, Of Love And Compassion And Elimination Of Ignorance, Selfishness And Greed.

Education Is The Way To Achieve Far-reaching Results, It Is The Proper Way To Promote Compassion And Tolerance In Society.

Despite All Philosophical Differences, All Major World Religions Have The Same Potential To Create Good Human Beings.

World Religions

Happiness In Simplicity Can Be Achieved With A Flexible Mindset And Nine Hours Sleep Each Night.

I Truly Believe That Compassion Provides The Basis Of Human Survival.

As A Buddhist, I View Death As A Normal Process, A Reality That I Accept Will Occur As Long As I Remain In This Earthly Existence. Knowing That I Cannot Escape It, I See No Point In Worrying About It. I Tend To Think Of Death As Being Like Changing Your Clothes When They Are Old And Worn Out, Rather Than As Some Final End. Yet Death Is Unpredictable: We Do Not Know When Or How It Will Take Place. So It Is Only Sensible To Take Certain Precautions Before It Actually Happens.

Many People Today Agree That We Need To Reduce Violence In Our Society. If We Are Truly Serious About This, We Must Deal With The Roots Of Violence, Particularly Those That Exist Within Each Of Us. We Need To Embrace 'inner Disarmament,' Reducing Our Own Emotions Of Suspicion, Hatred And Hostility Toward Our Brothers And Sisters

I Always Believed In Love, Compassion And A Sense Of Universal Respect. Every Human Being Has That Potential.

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