Category Quotations

Dalai Lama says:  “When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided

Dalai Lama says:  “When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past,…

Dalai Lama says:  “When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.”

Dalai Lama says :  “When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should…

Dalai Lama says:  “What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we’re connected to.”

Dalai Lama says:  “We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to…

Dalai Lama says:  “We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness”

Dalai Lama says:  “We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don’t stand up to experimentation, Buddha’s own words must be rejected.”

Dalai Lama says:  “We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our…

Dalai Lama says:  “We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility…