Dalai Lama Quotes about Commitment

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

Dalai Lama

Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

Dalai Lama

Commitment, Emotional, Compassion

Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.

Dalai Lama

Attitude, Responsibility, Commitment

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.89, Penguin

I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.

Dalai Lama

Retirement, Commitment, Numbers

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The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

Dalai Lama

Responsibility, Commitment, Important

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Dalai Lama

Religious, Commitment, Compassion

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

Dalai Lama

Strong, Determination, Commitment

I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.

Dalai Lama

Religious, Struggle, Commitment

Source: www.kpbs.org

Dalai Lama Quotes about Commitment

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