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There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

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Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

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The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

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Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

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Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

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In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

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The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

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There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

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Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

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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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If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

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I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

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We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

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