Dalai Lama

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.