People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people … - Robert Thurman

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My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

Robert Thurman

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead. " Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life. . . have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

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If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

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