Dalai Lama Quotes

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

Spirituality has greatly enriched me and I hope it does so to others, too.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We'll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

True salvation is freedom from negativity.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.