Wisdom from the Dalai Lama 'Ancient World, Modern Wisdom'

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Whilst cycling I read the book 'Ancient World, Modern Wisdom' by the Dalai Lama and I wrote down a list of maxims in my diary:-

1. Develop patience
2. Inner peace arises within the context of others
3. Happiness is closely connected with the happiness of others
4. cultivate positive qualities
5. Sopa means patience or 'able to bear' in Tibetan.
6. Reasoned response to negative thoughts and emotions
7. Take appropriate measures
8. Do not surrender your views
9. Avoid extremes
10. Practice and reflect each day
11. Shift focus away from self and towards others
12. Take pleasure in our good fortune
13. Rejoice in other's good fortune
14. Engaging in the practice of virtue is as hard as if you were driving a donkey uphill
15. Engage in the practice of destruction is as easy as rolling a boulder downhill - entropy
16. Change takes time
17. Karma = action. What goes around comes around.