Dalai Lama XIV

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Transforming the mind involves first learning to know it, then identifying how it functions so as to eliminate the three main mental…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“our ability to reframe our situation more positively”

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“The fourth and final circuit is “our ability to be generous.”

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“In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a…

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“No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through…

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“Live so when your children think of fairness and integrity they think of you.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek…

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“Marriages, even the best ones—perhaps especially the best ones—are an ongoing process of spoken and unspoken forgiveness. •”

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“You see, if there are no difficulties and you are always relaxed, then you complain more”

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“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Joy can span from the pleasure of others’ good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others’ misfortune, what the…

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“If you think only of yourself, if you forget the rights and well-being of others, or, worse still, if you exploit others,…

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“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are…

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“A person’s general goodness is in direct correlation to the force, or quality, of the kind thoughts he or she generates.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Both these people illustrate the essential point that happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“When you have a more compassionate mind and cultivate warmheartedness, the whole atmosphere around you becomes more positive and friendlier.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will…

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“The very best is being able to ask yourself, ‘Why do I want to have a house that has seven rooms when…

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“One of the positive side-effects of maintaining a very high degree of awareness of death is that it will prepare the individual…

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“It is in the nature of the mind that when you habituate it with a positive quality it can be developed limitlessly.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“There is perhaps nothing more joyous than birth, and yet so much of life is spent in sadness, stress, and suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that…

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“Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.”

— Dalai Lama XIV