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Form Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect…
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.…
- All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
- Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity…
- Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say…
- The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment…
- From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the…
- The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.
- Happiness is the highest form of health.
- Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort,…
- Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest…
- Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because…
- Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity…
- Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but…
- We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had…
- From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the…
More Form Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood