Dalai Lama Emotion Quotations

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.