Quote

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Something
Compassion
Really
Concerned
World
Involved
Inspirational
Benefiting
Action
Rectify
Others
Wrongs
Done
Distortion
Needs
Engaged

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.
Dalai Lama
Image
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.
Dalai Lama
Image
Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.
Dalai Lama
Image
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
Dalai Lama
Image
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
Dalai Lama
Image
Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
Dalai Lama
Image
Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.
Dalai Lama
Image
People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.
Dalai Lama
Image
The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.
Dalai Lama
Image
In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai Lama
Image
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Image
I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.
Dalai Lama
Image
Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.
Dalai Lama
Image
In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
Image
I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.
Dalai Lama
Image
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.
Dalai Lama
Image
We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.
Dalai Lama
Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.
Dalai Lama
Image
When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.
Dalai Lama
Image
Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
Dalai Lama