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Compassion
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.
  • Author: H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
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H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
http://www.seedsofcompassion.org
Viewed on April 1, 2008
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