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God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

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I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.
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The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.
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Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
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Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.
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If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
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We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
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A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
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There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that my interest and your interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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Your own pain is involuntary you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.
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If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.
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Different religions meet the needs of different people
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The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
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Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.
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Everything you do has some effect, some impact.
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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.
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