The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people as well as a beloved leader and guide for many people around the world. These scrolls ask us to reflect on the meaning of life by considering reflections on "Compassion" and "The Paradox of Our Age" and can serve as a beautiful piece in your meditation room, a spiritual dimension to your home decor, or a gift for a beloved one. Comes in assorted colors. Benefits the Tibetan refugee communities in the diaspora. Compassion read: "Usually our concept of compassion or love refers to the feeling of closeness we have with our friends and loved ones. Sometimes compassion also carries a sense of pity. this is wrong - any love or compassion which entails looking down on the other is not genuine compassion. To be genuine, compassion must be based on respect for the other, and on the realization that others have the right to be happy and overcome suffering, just as much as you. On this basis, since you can see that others are suffering, you develop a genuine sense of concern for them." -H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama The Paradox of Our Age reads: We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense' more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicines, but less healthiness; We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We built more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we have become long on quantity but short on quality. these are times of fast foods but slow digestion; Tall man but short character; Steep profits but shallow relationships. It's a time when there is much in the window but nothing in the room." -H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama Never Give Up reads: "No matter what is going on, never give up, develop the heart, too much energy in your country is spent developing the mind instead of the heart. Develop the heart, Be compassionate. Not just to your friends, but to everyone. Be compassionate. Work for peace in your heart and in the world. Work for peace, and I say again, never give up. No matter what is happening. No matter what is going on around you. Never give up." -H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama A Precious Human Life reads: "Everyday, Think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards other, I am not going to get angry, or thing badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." -H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama
