Dalai Lama Quotes

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

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

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

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Stay in your heart.

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.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

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

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.