Quotations trom the Dalai Lama

1. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives

2. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it

3. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

4. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

5. Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

6. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

7. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Simone Weil said in “Human Personality”:

At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. . . . The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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deja vu

there is no rain there
no longing and no emptiness.
we can do anything
to our heart's desire.

there is only freedom
to love and be loved
in that sacred place
of our dreams.

we have met there
a thousand times before
and will go on
meeting there forever

but today is different
because we have decided
to give flesh
to our imaginings

look around you
everything's oh so real
its alright now
there is nothing to fear

I am here
and you are with me
lets kiss and say hello
this is only deja vu

INNER JOURNEY

silently in solitude
as I listened to myself
within

gracefully permitting
sopoforic rustle of thoughts
to flow through

I was helplessly
trapped in a whirling eddy
of words.

words building
worlds exploding
quantum leaping

swiftly dissappearing
in unmeasured time
into the void

so taken
by the moment
I felt lost

and as I ease
myself and cease
to hold on

without effort
I returned exactly
at the same spot

where
I was
before


everything
is clear
now

such a good
place and time
to be

everything just fits
no need to change
a bit

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule!

(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing" in The Letters of Lewis Carroll, vol. II, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Oxford University Press (1979).)