“It is my wish that the spiritual power of peace will touch the mind of every person on this earth, radiating out from a deep peace within our own minds, across political and religious barriers, across the barriers of ego and conceptual righteousness. Our first work as peacemakers is to clear our minds of mental conflicts caused by ignorance, anger, grasping, jealousy and pride… If you truly understand this, you will never allow yourself to be defeated from within or without.”
From a statement made by His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in 1982 at a peace conference