Dalai lama Quotes by Pico Iyer

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

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The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

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When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at…

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[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very…

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The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes…

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I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way…

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I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going…

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Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific…

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Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way…

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When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good…

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Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;…

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He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to…

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If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But…

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Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we…

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With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he…

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I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions…

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[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as…

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It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me,…

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Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

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Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our…

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The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or…

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More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious…

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The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in…

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He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who…

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I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation…

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Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.…

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Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a…

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I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26…

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As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are…

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I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai…

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The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want…

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Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them…

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Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're…

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