"If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way."

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Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2000). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.227, Tharpa Publications UK

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#Compassion Quotes #Mind Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.”
“Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.”
“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”
“The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.”
“We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!”
“You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type.”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.”
“My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.”

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