Le Tien

“There is perhaps nothing more joyous than birth, and yet so much of life is spent in sadness, stress, and suffering.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Discovering more joy does not, I’m sorry to say,” the Archbishop added, as we began our descent, “save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily, too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreak without being broken.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“The very best is being able to ask yourself, ‘Why do I want to have a house that has seven rooms when there are only two or three of us? Why do I want to have it?’ And you can turn it on its head and look at how we are in such a mess with climate change because of our galloping consumption, which for the environment has been nothing less than disastrous. So you buy the small electric car instead, and you say, no I don’t need or want that big luxury car. So instead of it being your enemy, now it’s your ally.” Jinpa translated what the Archbishop had said”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“The very best is being able to ask yourself, ‘Why do I want to have a house that has seven rooms when there are only two or three of us? Why do I want to have it?”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World