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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!"

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure."

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