Dalai Lama Spiritual Quotes — Page 8

Spiritual Leader

Spiritual

“External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.”

Mind Suffering Circumstances

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

Spiritual

“The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.”

Hands Worry Emotional

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Spiritual

“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.”

People Doubt Anxiety

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Spiritual

“People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.”

Real Home Spiritual

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Spiritual

“I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.”

Spiritual Religious Humility

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Spiritual

“Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.”

Heart Responsibility Compassion

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Spiritual

“Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.”

Mean Body Clothes

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Spiritual

“Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.”

Practice Liberty Path

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Spiritual

“Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.”

Pride Humility Clever

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Spiritual

“This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.”

Spirit Anxiety Bears

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Spiritual

“It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.”

Spiritual Use Practice

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Spiritual

“I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.”

Soul Light Dark

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Dalai Lama — Spiritual Quotes

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