"When we encounter suffering, it is important..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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“Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.”
“We must live harmoniously with our neighbors.”
“We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.”
More on Compassion
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”
“Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.”
“Compassion seems to be the greatest power.”
More on Suffering
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
“Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.”
“When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.”