His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
