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My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
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Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.
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Someone else's action should not determine your response.
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We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
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An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.
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If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.
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From adversity we can learn the value of patience.
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
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Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.
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While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
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Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.
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If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.
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