Dalai Lama Ethic Quotations

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.