Dalai Lama

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.