Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”Ħ. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”Ĥ.

If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”ģ. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”Ģ. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others.

I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. “Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. Here are 15 quotes from the Dalai Lama that will break open your heart (and mind):ġ. I love reading words from the Dalai Lama because they feel so soothing. To me, it feels like there was life before that summer, and then there was life after it.Īnd everything about it led me to where I am now. It wasn’t just that book-so much flooded into my life at the time: mindfulness, yoga, meditation (although I stopped meditating after a while and eventually came back to it a couple of years later), so many eye-opening books and articles. It’s a beautiful journey that is still unfolding. Worlds opened up for me, a path I never could have imagined. My view, my outlook, how I approach life and myself shifted. That book, that period, changed my life, and I am so different from who I was before it. I just automatically reacted to my triggers and the things that moved through me, and I was so tired of doing that because I always felt bad when I reacted in ways I didn’t like or feel proud of. Prior to that, I honestly had no idea that was possible. I can still feel the surprise, the underlying hope and potential I felt when reading it. I can’t remember the exact part of the book or what he said, but I can still remember how I felt when I read the words, when I understood what he was saying. The first time I realized I could watch my thoughts and choose how to react to them was when I was 23, while reading the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness.

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