"Most of our problems are related to..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.
More by Dalai Lama
“Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”
“I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.”
“Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.They are signs of strength.”
More on Mind
“Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.”
“All the resources we need are in the mind.”
“When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.”
More on Emotion
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.”
“Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.”
“I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.”