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70+ Quotes About Enlightenment And Spirituality

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Famous Buddhist quotes encourage millions of people to lead moral lives, to be mindful of their actions, and to develop a deeper sense of wisdom. Buddhism teaches its followers about karma, another way of saying that all actions have results, whether they are positive or negative, and Buddhism asks its followers to examine the wisdom underlying their actions for potential karmic effects. 

In order to reach Enlightenment, Buddhists work to overcome suffering, cravings, and unfair expectations in order to attain true happiness and contentment. Find a list of quotes below which highlight enlightenment and spirituality, or wisdom and compassion in the face of adversity.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Zen Proverb

Enlightenment is not the byproduct of avoiding the darkness in favor of the light. It is the byproduct of taking the light of consciousness and diving deep into the darkness with it. To make the darkness conscious is to turn the shadow into light.

Teal Scott

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Nikola Tesla

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

No one saves us by but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Buddha

It’s in the entrails of the earth, not on its surface, that you can find diamonds and gold. It’s in going into the darkness that we find enlightenment.

Robert Scaer

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M. Scott Peck

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Elon Musk

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

Gary Hopkins

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H. L. Mencken

Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.

Chögyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it’s about becoming more fully human. . . It is the end of ignorance.

Lama Surya Das

Enlightenment, joy, and peace can never be given to you by another. The well is inside you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Atifete Jahjaga

If one wishes to be sure of the road one treads on, one must close one’s eyes and walk in the dark.

Saint John of the Cross

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

Sathya Sai Baba

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Gautama Buddha

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Wayne Dyer

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Vic Braden

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

Pema Chodron

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.

Thaddeus Golas

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Sen Sen Ming

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

William Blake

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Marianne Williamson

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

Ernest Holmes

Enlightenment is the journey from the head back to the heart, from words back to silence.

Jack Brocas

Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.

Ravi Shankar

Make no mistakes about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of the untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

Adyashanti

Enlightenment…is real; and each of us, whoever we are, can in the right circumstances and with the right training realize the nature of mind and so know in us what is deathless and eternally pure. This is the promise of all the mystical traditions of the world, and it has been fulfilled and is being fulfilled in countless thousands of human lives.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Enlightenment is beyond the connection to me and mine; it’s past the illusion that you know who you are. In our world it is considered advantageous to have a positive self-image, but the wisdom of Buddhism is to let go of images altogether. There is a great deal of suffering in self-esteem. It’s nice when it’s around, but it comes and goes, utterly out of our control. This practice is headed in the direction of letting go of everything you think you are. Then you’re doing the same things other people are—eating rice and drinking tea—but you’re beginning to get a taste of what it is like to be free and clear, wholehearted and effortless.

Larry Rosenburg

You are destined for enlightenment. Cooperate with your destiny, Don’t go against it, Don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.

Nisargadatta

Enlightenment must come little by little otherwise it would overwhelm.

Idries Shah

For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.

Terence Mckenna

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.

Neale Donald Walsch

Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.

Lao Tzu

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin

Enlightenment takes place when one lets his innocence emerge and sees nature and life with a childlike awe and respect. The ‘why’ of a child is repeated over and over, causing questions and the never-ending process of discovery.

Charles DuBack

If we demand enlightenment, it hides. . . . All that we can do is make ourselves enlightenment-prone. We learn to treasure the possibility of awakening in all moments and circumstances. We learn to simplify and cultivate the receptivity of heart that can be touched by profound understanding. We learn to listen deeply and discover stillness amid the movement in our world.

Christina Feldman

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl G. Jung

You may have expected that enlightenment would come Zap! instantaneous and permanent. This is unlikely. After the first ‘ah ha’ experience, it can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds.

Ram Dass

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

Carol Lynn Pearson

Nobody makes anybody enlightened. Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.

Toba Beta

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

Enlightenement or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Alan Watts

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’ — that is the motto of enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Anthony de Mello

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.

Bhagavad Gita

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Dogen

Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

Jed McKenna

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it’s the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Walter Isaacson

The ego tries to convince us that we must do things to achieve enlightenment. The spirit knows that enlightenment is not a matter of doing, but a magnificent consequence of being.

Dean Jackson

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn’t mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

Deepak Chopra

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

D. T. Suzuki

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

If we pretend to be more enlightened than we really are, we will miss an opportunity to heal ourselves. Admitting our limitations can make us feel vulnerable, yet it is very freeing. We just have to be ourselves as we are now, accepting the mixture of enlightened awareness and human limitation that is in each of us. Through this self-acceptance, we find a deep peace and self-love.

Shakti Gawain

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

Frederick Lenz

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

Ajahn Sumedho

Zen has no gates. The purpose of Buddha’s words is to enlighten others. Therefore Zen should be gateless. But, how does one pass through the gateless gate?

Mumon

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it’s about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

Lama Surya Das

From Life To Motorcycle Maintenance – 70+ Zen Quotes

admin — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:13:41 +0000

Zen Buddhism has brought meaning to many people’s lives. Zen philosophy has influenced many writers and thinkers for hundreds of years. The meaning of Zen is learning to understand the world without distractions. The philosophy of Zen is also centered around balance in all things. Zen practitioners believe that anyone can find enlightenment in themselves and become a Zen master.

Koans help teach important lessons. A koan is a brief story or parable that shows the reader how to deal with challenges. These Zen quotes can show you how to be more enlightened and balanced.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.

Tilopa

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Byron Katie

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.

Rachel Danson

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

Maezumi Roshi

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.

Bob Dylan

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Seneca

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life — after that you cannot be deceived.

Zen Proverb

I use a Bruce Lee technique: ‘The way of no way.’ He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything – to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Eddie Izzard

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Shunryu Suzuki

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Dogen

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

Nicola Formichetti

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Koun Yamada

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.

D.T. Suzuki

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Jackson Browne

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Buddha

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Allen Klein

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Donna Quesada

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Zen Proverb

For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.

Forrest Curran

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.

Steve Maraboli

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Bodhidharma

I’m here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

Pema Chödrön

The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

Soyen Shaku

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Rumi

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Sharon Salzberg

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Jon J. Muth

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Allen Klein

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important

Natalie Goldberg

Just think of the trees: They let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people’s hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.

Langya

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen Zenji

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Jack Kerouac

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Gene Clark

Think with your whole body.

Taisen Deshimaru

I think that that’s why artists make art – it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Alex Grey

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Ray Bradbury

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it’s Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it’s something that’s a little more open-ended… like, Zen’s something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

Barry Zito

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Najwa Zebian

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Amit Ray

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

Susan Gordon Lydon

If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.

Shen-hui

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Zen Proverb

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

B. D. Schiers

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle – even though it cannot be solved – is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

Tom Robbins

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Zhuangzi

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Huang Po

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’

Kristin Scott Thomas

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

Sri Chinmoy

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.

Wayne Dyer

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

I don’t think my competition is with the heroes. I don’t think I’m competing with anyone. I don’t mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I’m living in a universe of my own, and I’m enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people’s work.

Vidya Balan

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax.

Osho

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Ovid

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.

Taisen Deshimaru

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Chuang Tzu

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Maya Angelou

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Paulo Coelho

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People sleep, and when they die they wake.

Muhammad

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

Kabir

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Og Mandino

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Leonard Cohen

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Jack Kornfield

50 Thought Provoking Dalai Lama Quotes

Sam Gibbons — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:59:45 +0000

As the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, it is no surprise that the Dalai Lama has much to say about compassion, happiness, religion, love and life in general. Heed his advice to think a positive thought in the morning by reading one of his quotes first thing when you wake up.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Dalai Lama

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Dalai Lama

An open heart is an open mind.

Dalai Lama

An eye for an eye….we are all blind.

Dalai Lama

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

Dalai Lama

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.

Dalai Lama

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Dalai Lama

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Dalai Lama

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

Dalai Lama

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Dalai Lama

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

Dalai Lama

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Dalai Lama

If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, worry is of no use.

Dalai Lama

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Dalai Lama

Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.

Dalai Lama

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Dalai Lama

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

Dalai Lama

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Dalai Lama

We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get stable and steady happiness.

Dalai Lama

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Dalai Lama

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Dalai Lama

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Dalai Lama

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Dalai Lama

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Dalai Lama

The world doesn’t belong to leaders. The world belongs to all humanity.

Dalai Lama

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

Dalai Lama

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Dalai Lama

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Dalai Lama

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Dalai Lama

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

I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Dalai Lama

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Dalai Lama