Dalai Lama

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

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.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

God is a loving god.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

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.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.