14th Dalai Lama

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

14th Dalai Lama

‎In today’s materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.

14th Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

14th Dalai Lama

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

14th Dalai Lama

Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.

14th Dalai Lama

Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

14th Dalai Lama

Inner peace helps sustain good health, gives rise to happy individuals, happy families, happy communities and ultimately a happy humanity.

14th Dalai Lama

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money – they always bring happiness and strength.

14th Dalai Lama

It became clear that this man, although supposedly my enemy, was in fact just another human being, an ordinary person like myself.

14th Dalai Lama

It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one’s mind is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching.

14th Dalai Lama