"You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love, and respect for them, and a Clear REALization of the Oneness of all human beings."
05.29.06

"Human Potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am not of Value' is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the Power of Thought--so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own Master ( Read more... )

"A young man cuaght a small bird, and held it behind his back. He then asked, 'Master, is the bird I hold in my hands alive or dead?' The boy thought this was a grand opportunity to play a trick on the old man. If the Master answered 'dead,' it would be let loose into the air. If the Master answered 'alive,' he would simply wring its neck. The ( Read more... )

"When one is in an intense state of Hatred, even a very close friend appears somehow annoying. If one harbors hateful thoughts, it ruins one's Health. Even if one has wonderful possessions, in the moment of Anger one feels like throwing them or breaking them. So there is no guarantee that wealth alone can give one the Joy or FulFillment that one ( Read more... )

"When people get angry they lose all sense of Happiness. Even if they are good-looking and normally peaceful, their faces turn livid and ugly. Anger upsets their physical well-being and disturbs their rest; it destroys their appetities and makes them age prematurely. Happiness, peace, and sleep evade them, and they no longer appreciate people ( Read more... )

"Share you Knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality."
02.10.07

"Samsara--our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies--and Nirvana--genuine freedom from such an existence--are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness is always present. This is the meaning of Tantra ( Read more... )

"Feelings of Anger, Bitterness, and Hate are negative. If I kept those inside me they would spoil my Body and Health. They are of no use ( Read more... )

"The fact that there is always a positive side to Life is the one thing that gives me a lot of Happyness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like Happyness and unHappyness are relative. REALizing this gives you hope."
02.25.06

Rather than "REALizing this gives you hope", I'd rather say that "REALizing this is emPowering ( Read more... )

"My Religion is very Simple. My Religion is Kindness."
01.04.06

One of my very favorite Dalai Quotes ;-)