Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Dalai Lama: If We Make Friends With Ourselves


It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
 
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

― Dalai Lama XIV
 

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