Dalai Lama Quotes

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.