Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
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- I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. β¨ The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, β¦ βΆ
- It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
- One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphas β¦ βΆ
- Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
- World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us. β¨ Dalai Lama (2009). The Art of Happiness, 1 β¦ βΆ
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