title: The Spirit of Peace: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Love and Compassion in Everyday Life
author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
description: Observations by the 14th Dalai Lama on the true nature of life are presented here in paragraph-sized bursts, a strand of philosophical pearls skillfully strung together by Hatier, who shaped the text from years of talks, interviews, teachings and writings. Readers are first introduced to the Dalai Lama as a young boy via brief but candid reflections on his mother, the loneliness his enthronement engendered and his rigorous study regimen. These and other intimate details of his life, including his meeting with President Mao and his exile to India, are telegraphed through an accessible and elegant first-person narration. The latter part of the text is dedicated to the Dalai Lama's philosophies on an assortment of topics, including religion ("All religions share a common root, which is limitless compassion"); anger ("If your mind is dominated by anger, you will lose the greatest part of your human intelligence: wisdom"); and marriage ("making love is alright, but for marriage, don't hurry, be cautious"). A novice-friendly glossary of Buddhist terminology and a stunning array of stand-alone, full-color photographs round out the volume. Though His Holiness solemnly admits that due to political and historical reasons he may very well be the last Dalai Lama, his teachings, illuminated in books such as this, will undoubtedly continue to influence generations of individuals seeking enlightenment. <BR>Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Hinduism
  
  A Path to Inner Peace
  
  _ An Analytical Perspective _
  
  ######  Mohan R. Pandey
  
  
  
    
  
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  Copyright © 2015, 2013 by Mohan R. Pandey
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without
  written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotations
  embodied in critical articles and reviews.
  
  _Cover photograph of lotus by M. Pandey_
  
  ISBN: 148119710X
  
  ISBN-13: 9781481197106
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923348
  
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  _May all be happy. May all be free from disease. May all realize what is good.
  May none be subject to misery. Om, Shanti (Peace), Shanti, Shanti._
  
  _–Hindu Peace Chant_
  
  _Peace in the world depends on peace in the heart of individuals._
  
  _–Dalai Lama_
  
  _Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God._
  
  _–Matthew 5:9_
  
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  _All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
  everything. What we think, we become._
  
  _–Buddha_
  
  _As he thinketh in his heart, so