"Learning is the first step in making..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.
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“My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.”
“The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.”
“I think governments can't do much.”
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“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.”
“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.”