The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?,"… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you. — Robert Thurman Copy Share
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego, that would… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
![“They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using…” quote by Robert Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/960/robert-thurman-9409_chinese_they-chinese-will-need-a-sympathetic-int_938575.jpg)
