"If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy."
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"We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without."
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"It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal."
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"Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals."
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"Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action."
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"At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare."
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"The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others."
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"Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be."
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"Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up"
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"Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect."
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"Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter."
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"We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall."
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"We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness"
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"One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart."
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"Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet."
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"We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures."
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"For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help."
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"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."
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"To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run."
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"A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically."
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