"So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful."
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"Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!"
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"The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength."
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"Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so."
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"World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us."
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"In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness."
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"[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."
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"Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity."
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"It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed."
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"A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun."
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"Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana."
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"Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma."
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"The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything."
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"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much."
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"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."
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"Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible."
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"You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity."
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"That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity."
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"A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."
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"Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth."
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