From f5559736caaaaf6a3ac0773886d76fa58eb85f61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:33:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 8f0d22e8..f4a56a56 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37562,3 +37562,19 @@ eventually be possible to attain liberation from all states of existence conditioned by ignorance and be free of suffering.(p.45) -- "Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice", by Jonathan Landaw and Andy Weber, published by Snow Lion Publications +~ + We must distinguish between pride and self-confidence. Self-confidence is +necessary. It is what enables us, in certain situations, not to lose courage +and to think with some justification, 'I am capable of succeeding.' Self- +confidence is quite different from excessive self-assurance based on a false +appreciation of our capacities or circumstances. + If you feel able to accomplish a task that other people cannot manage, then +you cannot be called proud as long as your assessment is well founded. It is +as if someone tall came across a group of short people who wanted to get +something too high for them to reach, and said to them, 'Don't exert +yourselves, I can do it.' This would simply mean that he was more qualified +than the others to carry out a particular task, but not that he is superior to +them or that he wants to crush them.(p.259) + -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the + Heart", edited by Matthieu Ricard, translated by Christian Bruyat, + published by Snow Lion Publications -- 2.34.1