25Troubleshooting Enlightenment

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…”

John Milton

Poet

“My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm‐heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.”

The Dalai Lama was being interviewed upon receiving the Templeton Prize (awarded annually to a living person who advances Sir John Templeton's vision: “harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind's place and purpose within it”).

As the Dalai Lama shared his hope for the future, he revealed his intuitive sense that science would eventually ...

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