What surprised the Dalai Lama most about humanity?

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Self-Destruction

The true meaning of a culture based on guns (and weapons)...Self-destruction!

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Only After the Last...Only After We Have Lost...We Will Learn!

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten.
(Cree Indian Prophecy)


(Picture: a majestic looking tree in the Walyunga National Park, a significant aboriginal campsite, WA, Australia - Nat)

The World is All Gates...

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)





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Fly or Crawl?

We can all fly...but we choose or are forced to crawl!






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Gate of Hope for All (Rumi)

"Come, Come again !
Whatever you are...
Whether you are infidel,
idolater or fireworshipper.
Whether you have broken your vows
of repentance a hundred times
This is not the gate of despair,
This is the gate of hope.
Come, come again..."

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The Tao of Lao Tzu

"The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don’t know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God."

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