“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. By giving kindness, love, and compassion to others, you have the essence of brotherhood and sisterhood. Then one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling toward others is the basis of feeling your inner peace.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, and anger develops violence. There needs to be the understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality. When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.”
The Dalai Lama, the exiled religious and political leader of Tibet, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1989 in recognition of his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. The 14th Dalai Lama was born as Tenzin Gyatso in a hamlet in northeastern Tibet in 1935.
