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"On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington."
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"I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion."
Culture
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."
Compassion
"In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace."
Philosophy
"Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance."
Knowledge
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
Motivation
"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
Patience
"The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves."
Spiritual
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
Humanity
"I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,that together we may succeed in building a better worldthrough human understanding and love,and that in doing so we may reducethe pain and suffering of all sentient beings."
Spiritual
"Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion."
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"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."
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"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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Personal Development
"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
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"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
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"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
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"Ask questions. The secrets of life are hidden in questions, so ask wisely."
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"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
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"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
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"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."
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"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."
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