Community Quotes by Dalai Lama

24 Community quotes by Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama’s words on community pulse with calm assurance and a call for kindness. In these 24 reflections you’ll find a blend of mindfulness and social awareness, encouraging a peaceful approach to building together.

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

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Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of…

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Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others,…

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Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community…

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Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate…

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If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely…

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The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it…

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In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its…

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Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When…

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The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace,…

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I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop.…

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We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our…

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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…

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It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should…

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When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear…

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As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or…

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Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or…

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Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace.…

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Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the…

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Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to…

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The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort…

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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way…

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