For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
Who has magnificent self-confidenceAnd fears nothing that exists?The man who has attained to truthAnd lives free of error.
Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.
If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.
War is out of date, obsolete.
Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy
The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.
A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.
A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.
An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.
When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries.
Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.
Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.
If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day. Thank you. That is all.
To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.
Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.
So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.
No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.
Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.
You cant help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.
Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.
Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.
Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.
I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.
Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.
Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.
We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.
The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.
