Category Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama says:  “Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.”

Dalai Lama says:  “Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is…

Dalai Lama says:  “Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

Dalai Lama says:  “It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centredness is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is…

Dalai Lama says:  “It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to realize that the spiritual factor is important. I say ‘spiritual’ without meaning any…

Dalai Lama says:  “It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.”

Dalai Lama says:  “It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

Dalai Lama says:  “It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction.…

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

Dalai Lama says:  “Is this what you have in mind,’ I asked the Dalai Lama, ‘when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they…