Attention Quotes by Dalai Lama

14 Attention quotes by Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama’s teachings often stress compassion and mindfulness. In this modest set of fourteen quotes you’ll see his gentle encouragement to cultivate attentive awareness as a path toward inner harmony.

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Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

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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…

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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and…

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My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness…

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I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist…

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Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance,…

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It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as…

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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one…

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We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of…

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If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious…

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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and…

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For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But…

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