Dalai Lama Quotes

My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

World peace must develop from inner peace.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.