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Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

Richard Gere

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Richard Gere
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 31
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Richard Tiffany Gere
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Happiness
Anything
Heart
Mind
Expanding

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I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
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I can't say I have control over my emotions I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
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Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.
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Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
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When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.
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Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
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I've had an interesting life.
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My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
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If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.
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It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!
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Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
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