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Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

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Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.
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Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.
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It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.
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Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
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As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
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Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.
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Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.
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We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.
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Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either keep up your enthusiasm you will make progress.
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Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
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It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world
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Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.
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Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
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It is important to reflect on the kindness of others. Every aspect of our present well-being is due to others' hard work. The buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are all provided by others. None of them would exist but for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
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