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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai LamaAbout author
- Author's profession: Leader, Philosopher
- Nationality: tibetan
- Born: July 6, 1935
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I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
Margaret Mead