"The enemy is the necessary condition for..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
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“Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions”
“As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.”
“The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.”
More on Patience
“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.”
“He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others”
“I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.”
More on Enemies
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
“Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.”
“Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.”