Dalai Lama Quotes

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Mind is the creator of everything.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.