China has to go along with world trends. Thats democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. – Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, ones enemy is the best teacher. – Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isnt anyone who doesnt appreciate kindness and compassion. – Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951