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If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
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Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.
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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
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World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
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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.
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Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
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Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.
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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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When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, Please have compassion toward millionaires. That's not easy.
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In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
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Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.
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I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope
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Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
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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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Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.
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Happiness comes through taming the mind without taming the mind there is no way to be happy
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Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient we must become actively engaged.
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