{"quotes":[{"text":"Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","budhism","christianity","dalai-lama","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","islam","islammbudhism","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","pope","pope","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":18993,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["anger","angry-women","burning-woman","cultural-change","dalai-lama","feminine-archetypes","herstory","priestess","revolution","silence"],"id":21274,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?...This is where mindfulness can help us.","author":"David Michie","tags":["buddhism","cause-and-effect","dalai-lama","mindfulness","pain","suffering","trauma"],"id":66757,"author_id":"David+Michie"},{"text":"War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["buddhist","christian","citizen","communism","compassion","country","dalai-lama","dependence","experience","forgiveness","humanitarianism","islam","muslim","peace","rape","religion","resilient","socialism","soft","soldier","strong","the-pope","tolerance","tolerant","training","war","world"],"id":105970,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Coco the gorilla, and George Clooney. We were all floating above the earth looking down at the continents as they passed. George Clooney suggested I visit Providence, Rhode Island. The Dalai Lama sighed deeply and said he'd like to visit Tibet.Poor Dalai Lama.","author":"Kristin Cashore","tags":["dalai-lama","humor","meditate","meditation","tibet"],"id":153026,"author_id":"Kristin+Cashore"},{"text":"The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.","author":"Dalai Lama XIV","tags":["anxiety","dalai-lama","happiness","honesty"],"id":162675,"author_id":"Dalai+Lama+XIV"},{"text":"The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialistic values. We are not concerned enough with inner values. Those who grow up with this kind of education live in a materialistic life and eventually the whole society becomes materialistic. But this culture is not sufficient to tackle our human problems. The real problem is here,' the Dalai Lama said, pointed to his head. The Archbishop tapped his chest with his fingers to emphasize the heart as well. 'And here,' the Dalai Lama echoed. 'Mind and heart..","author":"Dalai Lama XIV","tags":["buddism","christianity","dalai-lama","desmond-tutu","joy"],"id":180220,"author_id":"Dalai+Lama+XIV"},{"text":"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.","author":"Dalai Lama XIV","tags":["buddhism","compassion","dalai-lama"],"id":215453,"author_id":"Dalai+Lama+XIV"},{"text":"It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["birth","buddhism","dalai-lama","inspiration","problems"],"id":221755,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.","author":"Ole Nydahl","tags":["buddhism","budismo","dalai-lama","happiness","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":242127,"author_id":"Ole+Nydahl"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}