Dalai Lama Quotes

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

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.

To have more, we must first become more.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Conversion is a daily thing.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.