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Don't be a person of success, be a person of value.

Dalai Lama

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In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
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If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.
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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.
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But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.
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Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.
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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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Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
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An eye for an eye....we are all blind
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Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.
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Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.
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Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
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Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.
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Now is the time when your action is practice.
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Different religions meet the needs of different people
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Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.
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My enemy is my greatest teacher.
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I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.
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The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.
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When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.
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