Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.
Interpretation
Learn from your mistakes rather than dwelling on them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning from failures instead of becoming discouraged by them. The Dalai Lama suggests that each failure carries valuable lessons that can help us grow and improve in our future endeavors, and it is essential to focus on these lessons rather than the negative emotions tied to the failures themselves.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might say, 'As the Dalai Lama wisely stated, forget the failures, keep the lessons.'
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
My religion is kindness. _x000D_ A good mind, a good heart, _x000D_ warm feelings these are _x000D_ the most important things.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.
To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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