The Dalai Lama and Personal Responsibility

"The Dalai Lama's philosophy is in the deepest and widest possible sense a philosophy of peace.  The Dalai Lama has understood there will be no future worth living unless everyone now takes personal responsibility for their own inner lives and universal responsibility for the pain and misery in the world.  He has understood that none of the major terrible problems that threaten survival of the earth can be solved by merely institutional or political methods.  Humankind, to survive, must undergo a massive and unprecedented change of heart, an ordered and passionate spiritual revolution that changes forever our relation to each other and our relation to nature.  It is only from such a revolution that the new vision the planet so desperately needs can arise - a vision that sees the connections between every thought and every action, the relation between the obsession with the individual self and its hunger for false securities and every kind of exploitation that is ruining the world."  ~ Andrew Harvey