Dalai Lama Spiritual Quotes — Page 4

Spiritual Leader

Spiritual

“More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.”

Religious Kindness Appreciate

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

Spiritual

“Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.”

Giving Kindness Frustration

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Spiritual

“Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.”

Spiritual Essence Overcoming

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Spiritual

“Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.”

Mind Problem Emotion

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Spiritual

“In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.”

Years Spiritual Progress

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Spiritual

“Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.”

Real Inspirational Happiness

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Spiritual

“For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.”

Heart Religious Atheist

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Spiritual

“The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.”

Hands Compassion Attachment

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Spiritual

“Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.”

Feelings Technology Humanity

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Spiritual

“To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.”

Prayer Meditation Awareness

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Spiritual

“Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.”

Important Attitude Suffering

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Spiritual

“If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.”

Spiritual Practice Freedom

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Dalai Lama — Spiritual Quotes

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