Dalai Lama
Peace is not just the absence of violence, but the manifestation of human compassion. Compassion and love are the source of external and internal peace. Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.
Dalai Lama
It is the nature of human beings to yearn for freedom, equality, and dignity. If we accept that others have a right to peace and happiness equal to our own, do we not have a responsibility to help those in need? Each human has to take responsibility for the human condition or who else will do it?
dpa
22 July 2007
Appealing for peace in the world, the Dalai Lama spoke in the German city of Hamburg on this July Sunday.
“How can we discuss things without trust,” he asked.
He appealed for more peace and justice in the world. “The 20th century was marked by violence, but the 21st century could be a century of peace,” said the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
He told the audience of 10,000 he would like to see a worldwide organization where people could devote their lives to the cause of peace.
“We cannot change the world merely by resolutions of the United Nations. We have to start with the individual,” he said.
“People from societies that teach peacefulness, tolerance and sympathy are more peaceful by nature,” he said, adding that it was shocking that Sunnis and Shiites could fight one another in Iraq or Catholics and Protestants could do so in Northern Ireland.
“They have the same God, yet they still kill one another,” he said. “Violence can never be the right way. We have to find a human solution to problems.”
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Hans Jürgen Mayer
Deutsche Welle
24 July 2007
Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is visiting the German city of Hamburg. When asked during a group interview what his goals when visiting other countries were, the Dalai Lama responded, “My main purpose and motivation is not the issue of Tibet, but rather the promotion of human values in order to have happier individuals, families and communities, and, in that way, a happier humanity. I consider that to be my contribution. I think every human being has a responsibility to better the world. That’s my conviction, and I always try to promote that. My second goal is the promotion of religious harmony.
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