His Holy Dalai Lama Speaks

Happiness

1. Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.
2. The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.

Beliefs and Values

3. The need of the day is a warm heart and some sense of humanity.
4. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
5. Unlike science, the religious tradition teaches the concept of forgiveness, tolerance and compassion. Scientists cannot help you change your emotion, only religion can.

Knowledge, Learning

6. I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.
7. You might consider things like old age and death as negative, unwanted, and simply try to forget about them. But eventually those things will come anyway.

Relationships

8. The need for simple human-to-human relationships is becoming increasingly urgent ... Today the world is smaller and more interdependent. One nation's problems can no longer be solved by itself completely. Thus, without a sense of universal responsibility, our very survival becomes threatened. Basically, universal responsibility is feeling for other people's suffering just as we feel our own. It is the realization that even our enemy is entirely motivated by the quest for happiness. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing that we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.