Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional … we have bigger houses, but smaller families. More conveniences, but less time. We have knowledge, but less judgments; more experts, but more problems; more medicines but less health.

Blessing must arise from within your own mind. It is not something that comes from outside. When the positive qualities of your mind increase and the negativities decrease, that is what blessing means. The Tibetan word for blessing means transforming into magnificent potential.

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption — but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance.

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!

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

If a problem can be solved, it will be. If it cannot be solved, there is no use worrying about it.

We are but visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.