Eva Annemarie's Blog (5)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I would like to thank you all for your greetings on the occasion of my 85th birthday, as well as those who took part in celebrating the day in many parts of the world. I am touched by your affection.

I am in good health and look forward to live long to continue being of some service to humanity.

In the world in which we live today, nations are no longer isolated and self-sufficient as they once were. We have all become…

Even though Tibet is still not free, what a marvelous blessing that nearly every educated person in this whole world knows the tragedy of Tibet, isn’t that so? For that, we are grateful, and it has been accomplished in perhaps only 20 or 30 years.

We also wish His Holiness the Dalai Lama a very long life, so that his efforts on the…

HH Dalai Lama during his Geshe examination in Lhasa in 1959

Experience of our days is up and down. This is on the outside and superficial. As we practice more, an inner experience begins to permeate our whole experience, our whole being. At first it waxes and wanes. With time and practice it becomes…

It is so easy to take for granted that tomorrow will come, that another opportunity will be given to bear witness to a sunset, take a walk in the forest, listen in awe to the birds, or share a moment of connection with the one in front of us. But another part knows how fragile it truly is here, how tenuous, and the reality that this opening…

Need this quote right now, in this crazy world....

"Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular.

Whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions…