July 13, 2025 • 24 mins
Get your week started with some words of wisdom from the Dalai Lama! In honor of his 90th Birthday, hear the weekly wrap of Amy and T.J.’s quotes of the day that will get your week started off with intention and purpose.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome
everyone to this episode of Morning Run. This is your
Sunday edition of Morning Run, and we are hoping to
get your Sunday started with some inspiration. We're sharing with
you the words of wisdom, the quotes of the day
that we give at the end of each Morning Run,
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and we wrap it all up here on your Sunday
Morning Run and we give you a bonus quote of
the day. But this week was a special week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes oh, I loved it. The Dalai Lama ninety years old.
He turned ninety a week ago. Obviously he has many
great quotes, but it was your idea last week, let's
just do a happy birthday week, if you will. Dalai Lama,
and you used all of his quotes and they were
all fantastic, but they were.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All so simple, they were and they have to do
with happiness, joy, compassion.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They all had a.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Theme, and they're all literally aiming towards what I think
we're all hoping for in our lives, for all of
those things, right, And so he had so many quotes,
I figured we could fill a month worth of quotes
of the day. But at least a week's fold, So
that's how easy. Yeah, it would have actually just to know.
Just hey, let me just go into my Dalai Lama
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like billfold of quotes, because he has so many to
choose from. But I hope that you all enjoy the
ones that we did choose this week.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I got to stop billfold.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bill fold like a wallet full.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's just all, are we dating ourselves?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Billfol You're right, that does sound old billfold, And yeah,
that is a I don't know if i've heard bill fold. Wow,
I just dated myself. I was born in nineteen seventy three, y'all.
So for anyone else who was a child of the seventies,
maybe you two use the word billfold.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't know why that jumped out to me, but
I don't know if the Dalai Lama used the billfold.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, he's ninety, so he might have. Well, obviously he
predated that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know any Again, he says he wants to
live until one hundred, one.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Hundred and thirty thirty, so he thinks he still has
forty more years in him. And I love that positivity
will get you everywhere, So I would love to see
how far that gets.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Him years wise.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
What do we have Monday?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What'd you have for yes Monday? He said this, Well,
this is what we said he said on Monday. This
was our quote of the day for Monday from the
Dalai Lama. Every day, think as you wake up today,
I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious
human life. I am not going to waste it. That's
a great way to start your Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Just I would challenge everybody to really that quote, take
that write it down, just put it in your notes
in your iPhone, just for a week. Wake up and
make that the first thing you do is read that quote.
Won't you get off to a different start to your
day if that is your mindset when you start.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I love it again.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I said all of them were simple, but that is
just a simple message that hit home.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It does, and I actually would you know, we kind
of make fun of people who have too many sayings
or quotes on the wall. You go into Marshalls, you
go into TJ Max, you see these awesome no I
get it, like you know whatever it is like lake House,
like they've got all of these like fun little things
to hang up in your wall.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But they have sayings and quotes.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This is one that I actually would hang up right
by my bed to remember as I woke up every day.
So here is Monday's quote of the day. Every day
think as you wake up today. I am fortunate to
be alive. I have a precious human life. I am
not going to waste it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I could hear it over and over again and it
still would actually motivate me more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
On our Monday Tuesday, we moved on to another quote
from the Dalai Lama, and this one has to do
with love.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This one was spectacular.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Love is the absence of judge. The more you are
motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action
will be.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Wait say the last part again. Wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless
and free your action will be.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, I got you now.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And just as a heads up here, folks, she is
only I'm being reminded of them, so I'm hearing them
almost for the first time again with you all, so
I am kind of taking them in again for the
first time. That last part, I guess kind of speaks
to me. What happens when you lead with love. What
if that's your first thought, your first action, your first
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response to any situation is love. It changes a lot.
If you lead with love from the person that cuts
you off in traffic, if you lead with love from
the person who steps on your new shoes, all right,
whatever thing you want to name scenario, that situation works
out differently and better if.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, yeah, and if the person who you actually do
love or live with, or who you gave birth to
says something that is offensive, if you lead with love,
it actually does help you make the next best decision
because in the first part of this love is the
absence of judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And isn't that the.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
First thing we all want to do when somebody pisses
us off, whether we love them or know them or
they're complete strangers. You want to assume the worst. You
want to say, how dare you? Why would you ever?
And you start judging them. If you take the judgment
away and you're just curious, that must be hard, or
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I wonder what kind of day he or she must
be having, or he must feel insecure or unloved or
unseen or unheard. In this moment, when you actually start
to be curious about what's motivating the act of another
person that is causing you to feel anything but love
instead of judging them, if you try to understand them,
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that is where actual love exists. And I know, like
I'm kind of realizing this in the epiphany of speaking
it out loud, and it's not anything crazy, it's not
anything that we haven't thought of, that we aren't intellectually
aware of. But when you actually try to understand it,
like okay, instead of getting pissed, and if you feel
yourself getting pissed, stop yourself and go, wait, why am
I angry? And where are they coming from? That is
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so hard to do in the moment, but if you
can do it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That is love, is it not.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I encourage everybody to rewind this episode sixty seconds right
now and just listen to again, over and over what
Robot just said, because that's it. Yeah, like that's everything,
and that's it and that wasn't planned and that's from
experience that it's from pain, and that's from recent pain,
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and that's how that is being spoken. Listen to that again.
I really really encourage you to do so, because that
is it. There's nothing you're going to hear in this episode.
That's going to be more significant than.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
What you just heard. Yeah, it's going to be more.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Useful than what you just heard. So I absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Encourage, Hey, guess what I'm going to need to re
listen to that. I'm going to need to rewind that
myself and listen to myself and say, girl, do exactly
what you just said.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
That was that was good? That was it? You mastered that.
I know it's hard, but that is a key to life.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And the key to happiness is what she's it actually
came from places seconds of recent situation.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
That's sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That is the most valuable sixty seconds you will hear
in an Amy and DJ episode.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
All right, So our Wednesday quote of the day from
the Dalai Lama. This was a very simple one, but
such a powerful one. And again, this is a moment
and an opportunity to stop yourself when you feel yourself
going into some negative spirals, some doomsday projection that we
all do. So here is what the Dalai Lama said. Quote,
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choose to be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It feels better, It feels better. Let that just be
the motivation.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
If anything else, if it's even a selfish motivation to say,
I want to feel better, choose to be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It feels better if.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That simple think of anything.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We have to Okay, we have to do a run tomorrow,
six miles, Yes, we can think, my god, the humidity tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They heat tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Bam, right, the what what's the thing they keep up with?
The girls keep up with the US? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, the UV and so we've got like pusan. It's
going to be beating down on us. Everything's working against us.
I don't like heat. I don't like humidity.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Six miles. That's a lot in those conditions.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Even as we're talking about it, it feels heavier to me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It does.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But what if I tell you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Babe, our favorite bar on the West Side Highway is
going to be open tomorrow. Let's do a run too, fun,
make it in there, we get our favorite Sunday beer.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And also think about it like we just have to
run three miles, turn around, and run three miles back.
I always like to split it up and make it
into two runs where you just have your turnaround point
and then you run again and then when you're finished.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But look, you never the heat's not gonna bother you.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
My foot's not gonna bother me.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It feels better to think about anything in an optimistic way, right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So, I think we all get into a rut or
into a almost like a habit, a bad habit, of.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thinking of the worst in a weird way.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We think it protects us, like, Okay, well, if I
imagine the worst case scenario, then anything short of that
will be better. But we start to imagine, or I think,
convince ourselves that are anticipating the worst is a protection
in a way. So we're kind of I think we're
always trying to protect ourselves. Our egos are trying to
protect ourselves, our everything is trying to protect us from
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something that could be worse. And so we get into
a habit of preparing for bad scenarios, and then we
get into a negative mindset. But I think, and I've
obviously read plenty of self help books where it's like,
what if it all worked out? What if we all
just anticipated it to be better.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Than we expect? Are we really going to be disappointed?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Actually, I think that actually creates a positive energy flow
that creates a better than expected upcome, and even if
it isn't at least we felt good about it on
the way to something that maybe let us down a
little bit. But what's like, how bad is that at
least we were hoping for the best. At least we
had a positive attitude going into it. That actually, to
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me is a win win win, even if it's not
as great as we thought thinking it could be.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is still hopeful. Hopeful is always better. It feels better.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So yes, choose to be optimistic. It feels better. Thank
you Dali Lama. So our next Dhali Lama quote. This
is actually something that I hope doesn't offend anyone. This
is Thursday, and I remember when I picked this, I
was like, I hope this doesn't offend anyone who is religious,
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because I understand the power of faith and the role
that plays in so many people's lives. But I do
appreciate the fact that you can be supremely religious and
still agree with the Dali Lama on this. He said,
we can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
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survive without human affection. I thought this was so powerful.
It doesn't take away from the divine or faith, but
it does at least acknowledge something that I think a
lot of us forget how important it is to be hugged,
to be tough, to hold hands with someone. It can
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be platonic, it doesn't have to be romantic. But we
know babies cannot survive if they are not helped. And
it just speaks to our need and desire and hopefully
like just our willingness to give this to another human.
We all need to be touched physically.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know, I liked yeah to your and you emphasize
the religion part of it. It doesn't take away from religion.
It more so just elevates the idea that human connection
is everything, Yeah, that we all need. Isn't every show,
every reality, any show you can name, is about human
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connection and relationship. Everything and everybody is seeking some approval
or comfort or aren't we all don't we all just
need that and want this? So yeah, And the way
he put it again, this was simple as anything. You
can live without some stuff, but you can't vibe without
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this live or even two different words, that's true and
hit differently. You just cannot exist without human connection.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it's like so many of us are seeking belonging
And yeah, I guess I went to the physical but
it could also just be emotional affection. There just to
know that someone cares. And yes, it is beautiful to
believe in the divine and believe in oneself. That's meditation,
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that's religion. I think both of those things are super important.
But we need to be able to connect with one another,
to be affectionate with one another. So I just I
love how he put that one more time for you all.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
survive without human affection. So I just took this as like,
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hug someone, smile at someone, touch someone.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's okay, and we all need it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You know what that one you said, smile at someone?
That is so important. It is if you ever make
eye contact with anybody, please smile. Don't And you know
we've been in playing buildings and offices and when day
and day where you're going through a narrow hallway that's
only wide enough for two people and you walk past
someone and for some reason they try to avoid eye contact.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That thing.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's awkward.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yes, don't ever avoid eye contact. Don't ever avoid someone.
You know the number of times you and I have
been in an elevator, we have these awkward moments yes,
because I require people to speak to me.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You always say good day or hello or hi, good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And when they come in sometimes and I say hello,
and they don't speak. When they get ready to get off,
I say, have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Still, It's true what a lot of people have air
pods in they're not always paying attention. But like that's
a missed opportunity to connect.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Stop. Some are just zoned out.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
They don't expect anybody to speak, or they their heads down.
You don't expect human interaction.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I think we're gonna more and more unfortunately towards that
with all of the just the devices we.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Have and the headphones.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Y I can be your friend now, you don't need
a best friend because AI can.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But actually I believe the Dalai Lama said it best
that we do.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
We do regardless.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Everyone craves human affection. So you know what, even if
you don't get a response, smile anyway, say hello anyway,
Hug someone anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We got a Friday quote and a bonus quote that
I don't even know about yet.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday edition of our Morning Run,
where we go over our quotes of the day, and
we have a bonus quote for you as usual on
this Sunday, but this is a week that we have
devoted to the one and only Dali Lama, who turned
nine day ninety exactly one week ago today. Actually, so
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we spent our week quoting him, and there were so
many to choose from. It was not hard at all
to come up with a bonus quote. But we will
give you first our Friday quote from the Dali Lama.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
He said this.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If
you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He's just stopped talking after that. Drop, Mike, just go't
love out your day, live the rest of your days
in silence. That is amazing. That is amazing, amazing, amazing. Compassion, compassion, compassion.
Why do why is this so difficult? And it is
we do that with ourselves and everybody else. That is
a difficult thing to extend, right compassion to ourselves and
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to others.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Why isn't it interesting?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So many people will draw the line between empathy and compassion.
So empathy is something that you can relate to, right,
So you're like, yeah, I've been there, I empathize with you.
I know what it's like to be you, but that
is so rarely the case. Oftentimes, what is required of
us as humans, or what I would hope should be
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something you would strive towards, is to be compassion even
when you don't understand, Even when you can't possibly put
yourself in the other person's shoes, you can at least
show compassion like I don't know what it's like to
be you. I don't know what it is that you're
going through, but I see that you're hurting, and I
feel for you and I'm with you. That's compassion, and
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so yes, when you can give that to someone else,
you can give someone joy. But truly, when you are
being that person which is selfless and saying I don't know,
but doing it anyway, that actually does bring you joy too.
It really is like everybody wins, nobody loses, but somehow
it's so hard to do in the moment.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Sometimes he said it to Dalai. Lama says he wants
to live in another forty years.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Hah, I hope he does.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I think I might have another forty years in me,
but I would love to continue to get Dali Lami
quotes yes for the next forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Years, if we if we could actually pull out of
a hat a Dalai Lama quote every day we and
like just to remind yourself how to live better. And honestly,
some of these quotes like this has been a big
source of fuel for us every day. Like sometimes it's
very hard to do what we do, we're a little tired,
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and then when we get to the court of the day,
we're rejuvenated. It's like this moment, we were like, okay,
another reminder on not just to remember to live well
and better, but like, this is our day today, this
is what we have right now. And that's what I
love about folks like the Dolly Lama who devote themselves
to just that, to reminding themselves and others how to
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live each and every day. So this was amazing. If
you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you
want to be happy, practice compassion.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
A drum roll, please the bonus quote that you always
pull out of your hat on Sundays. I haven't seen
this one at all. So another Dolly Loma quote and
a bonus.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Which you got.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So this is a little bit of a long winded one.
Whoa but because so many of his are short and
sweet and to the point.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
This was a more This is a longer one, but
I loved it. Not, So here we go.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We don't need more money, we don't need greater success
or fame. We don't need the perfect body or even
the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we
have a mind which is all the basic equipment we
need to achieve complete happiness.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How's that food for thought?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Say the last say that last line again.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind
which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve
complete happiness.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Okay, yeah, okay, now none with them, now with them?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Now with them.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But that's the fight, right, Isn't that the battle?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It is our own minds, our own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
That and I think that's the thing that we have
found almost You've used a lot of quotes that go
back quite literally.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
A thousand years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yes, and they're fighting the same battles, yes, mentally in
how to I guess, find happiness, find peace, to be settled,
to be content, to be all these things in your
life you want. But it's all boils down to your own.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Mind, how many different ways. And we'll keep doing this
with our quotes of the day do we talk about
how we all are suffering?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Is our own?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We create our own suffering. Yes, obviously there can be
physical suffering, things that are out of our control. But mostly,
if you're being honest, when you are upset, anxious, depressed, scared,
like just whatever it is that's causing pain, it's almost
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always our minds. I'm going to read the whole thing.
I'm going to take it all because really, this is
why I made this the bonus quote. I knew it
was long, but it's so powerful. Okay, we don't need
more money, we don't need greater success or fame with you.
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We don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate.
Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind,
which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve
complete happiness.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Damn, I mean that's it. We're all equipped. What are
you going to do with it?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You have been given the tool that you need. How
are you using that tool? That is man?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It requires discipline, it requires I think even experience to
know what not to do. And even when we know
what not to do, we still do it.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
But if we can.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Catch ourselves and say stop, I am here, I am
alive I have right now, I'm healthy, I'm happy. Whatever
it is that you can say is a blessing, and
you lean on that and you say thankful, stay thankful,
and you are grateful for what you have and you
aren't thinking about what you don't have or what you
should have or what could have been or what should
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have been. But if you just accept it really is
isn't it about acceptance and gratitude. That's kind of what
it is in the end of the day. But I
love how you put it, because we're always looking for
more or some external source that could make us better, greater, happier,
more joyful. Actually, we have everything we need right now.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You nailed it on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Great, Well, I didn't nail it actually the Dali Lama.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Did you want to do it in a bonus Dalai
Lama week?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
This was so easy, right?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh no, this was the easiest week ever, I have
to say, of picking out quotes because there were so
many to choose from, and so yes, I encourage you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We encourage you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
If you're listening to this you like what you heard,
google Dali Lama quotes that you will find so many more.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
There's like it's just remarkable.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And I would also say like I love the fact
that it isn't about a specific religion or any specific ethnicity.
This is universal. It doesn't matter who you pray to
or what you believe in. The dollia can guide you
to a place of peace, and that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Is what we're all looking for. So thank you for
listening on this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We appreciate you as always on MENI probak On behalf
of my partner TJ.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
Thank you,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome
everyone to this episode of Morning Run. This is your
Sunday edition of Morning Run, and we are hoping to
get your Sunday started with some inspiration. We're sharing with
you the words of wisdom, the quotes of the day
that we give at the end of each Morning Run,
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and we wrap it all up here on your Sunday
Morning Run and we give you a bonus quote of
the day. But this week was a special week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes oh, I loved it. The Dalai Lama ninety years old.
He turned ninety a week ago. Obviously he has many
great quotes, but it was your idea last week, let's
just do a happy birthday week, if you will. Dalai Lama,
and you used all of his quotes and they were
all fantastic, but they were.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All so simple, they were and they have to do
with happiness, joy, compassion.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They all had a.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Theme, and they're all literally aiming towards what I think
we're all hoping for in our lives, for all of
those things, right, And so he had so many quotes,
I figured we could fill a month worth of quotes
of the day. But at least a week's fold, So
that's how easy. Yeah, it would have actually just to know.
Just hey, let me just go into my Dalai Lama
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like billfold of quotes, because he has so many to
choose from. But I hope that you all enjoy the
ones that we did choose this week.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I got to stop billfold.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bill fold like a wallet full.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's just all, are we dating ourselves?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Billfol You're right, that does sound old billfold, And yeah,
that is a I don't know if i've heard bill fold. Wow,
I just dated myself. I was born in nineteen seventy three, y'all.
So for anyone else who was a child of the seventies,
maybe you two use the word billfold.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't know why that jumped out to me, but
I don't know if the Dalai Lama used the billfold.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, he's ninety, so he might have. Well, obviously he
predated that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know any Again, he says he wants to
live until one hundred, one.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Hundred and thirty thirty, so he thinks he still has
forty more years in him. And I love that positivity
will get you everywhere, So I would love to see
how far that gets.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Him years wise.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
What do we have Monday?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What'd you have for yes Monday? He said this, Well,
this is what we said he said on Monday. This
was our quote of the day for Monday from the
Dalai Lama. Every day, think as you wake up today,
I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious
human life. I am not going to waste it. That's
a great way to start your Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Just I would challenge everybody to really that quote, take
that write it down, just put it in your notes
in your iPhone, just for a week. Wake up and
make that the first thing you do is read that quote.
Won't you get off to a different start to your
day if that is your mindset when you start.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I love it again.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I said all of them were simple, but that is
just a simple message that hit home.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It does, and I actually would you know, we kind
of make fun of people who have too many sayings
or quotes on the wall. You go into Marshalls, you
go into TJ Max, you see these awesome no I
get it, like you know whatever it is like lake House,
like they've got all of these like fun little things
to hang up in your wall.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But they have sayings and quotes.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This is one that I actually would hang up right
by my bed to remember as I woke up every day.
So here is Monday's quote of the day. Every day
think as you wake up today. I am fortunate to
be alive. I have a precious human life. I am
not going to waste it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I could hear it over and over again and it
still would actually motivate me more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
On our Monday Tuesday, we moved on to another quote
from the Dalai Lama, and this one has to do
with love.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This one was spectacular.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Love is the absence of judge. The more you are
motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action
will be.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Wait say the last part again. Wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless
and free your action will be.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, I got you now.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And just as a heads up here, folks, she is
only I'm being reminded of them, so I'm hearing them
almost for the first time again with you all, so
I am kind of taking them in again for the
first time. That last part, I guess kind of speaks
to me. What happens when you lead with love. What
if that's your first thought, your first action, your first
(04:43):
response to any situation is love. It changes a lot.
If you lead with love from the person that cuts
you off in traffic, if you lead with love from
the person who steps on your new shoes, all right,
whatever thing you want to name scenario, that situation works
out differently and better if.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, yeah, and if the person who you actually do
love or live with, or who you gave birth to
says something that is offensive, if you lead with love,
it actually does help you make the next best decision
because in the first part of this love is the
absence of judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And isn't that the.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
First thing we all want to do when somebody pisses
us off, whether we love them or know them or
they're complete strangers. You want to assume the worst. You
want to say, how dare you? Why would you ever?
And you start judging them. If you take the judgment
away and you're just curious, that must be hard, or
(05:45):
I wonder what kind of day he or she must
be having, or he must feel insecure or unloved or
unseen or unheard. In this moment, when you actually start
to be curious about what's motivating the act of another
person that is causing you to feel anything but love
instead of judging them, if you try to understand them,
(06:06):
that is where actual love exists. And I know, like
I'm kind of realizing this in the epiphany of speaking
it out loud, and it's not anything crazy, it's not
anything that we haven't thought of, that we aren't intellectually
aware of. But when you actually try to understand it,
like okay, instead of getting pissed, and if you feel
yourself getting pissed, stop yourself and go, wait, why am
I angry? And where are they coming from? That is
(06:30):
so hard to do in the moment, but if you
can do it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That is love, is it not.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I encourage everybody to rewind this episode sixty seconds right
now and just listen to again, over and over what
Robot just said, because that's it. Yeah, like that's everything,
and that's it and that wasn't planned and that's from
experience that it's from pain, and that's from recent pain,
(06:58):
and that's how that is being spoken. Listen to that again.
I really really encourage you to do so, because that
is it. There's nothing you're going to hear in this episode.
That's going to be more significant than.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
What you just heard. Yeah, it's going to be more.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Useful than what you just heard. So I absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Encourage, Hey, guess what I'm going to need to re
listen to that. I'm going to need to rewind that
myself and listen to myself and say, girl, do exactly
what you just said.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
That was that was good? That was it? You mastered that.
I know it's hard, but that is a key to life.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And the key to happiness is what she's it actually
came from places seconds of recent situation.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
That's sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That is the most valuable sixty seconds you will hear
in an Amy and DJ episode.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
All right, So our Wednesday quote of the day from
the Dalai Lama. This was a very simple one, but
such a powerful one. And again, this is a moment
and an opportunity to stop yourself when you feel yourself
going into some negative spirals, some doomsday projection that we
all do. So here is what the Dalai Lama said. Quote,
(08:06):
choose to be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It feels better, It feels better. Let that just be
the motivation.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
If anything else, if it's even a selfish motivation to say,
I want to feel better, choose to be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It feels better if.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That simple think of anything.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We have to Okay, we have to do a run tomorrow,
six miles, Yes, we can think, my god, the humidity tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They heat tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Bam, right, the what what's the thing they keep up with?
The girls keep up with the US? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, the UV and so we've got like pusan. It's
going to be beating down on us. Everything's working against us.
I don't like heat. I don't like humidity.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Six miles. That's a lot in those conditions.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Even as we're talking about it, it feels heavier to me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It does.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But what if I tell you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Babe, our favorite bar on the West Side Highway is
going to be open tomorrow. Let's do a run too, fun,
make it in there, we get our favorite Sunday beer.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And also think about it like we just have to
run three miles, turn around, and run three miles back.
I always like to split it up and make it
into two runs where you just have your turnaround point
and then you run again and then when you're finished.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But look, you never the heat's not gonna bother you.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
My foot's not gonna bother me.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It feels better to think about anything in an optimistic way, right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So, I think we all get into a rut or
into a almost like a habit, a bad habit, of.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thinking of the worst in a weird way.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We think it protects us, like, Okay, well, if I
imagine the worst case scenario, then anything short of that
will be better. But we start to imagine, or I think,
convince ourselves that are anticipating the worst is a protection
in a way. So we're kind of I think we're
always trying to protect ourselves. Our egos are trying to
protect ourselves, our everything is trying to protect us from
(10:09):
something that could be worse. And so we get into
a habit of preparing for bad scenarios, and then we
get into a negative mindset. But I think, and I've
obviously read plenty of self help books where it's like,
what if it all worked out? What if we all
just anticipated it to be better.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Than we expect? Are we really going to be disappointed?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Actually, I think that actually creates a positive energy flow
that creates a better than expected upcome, and even if
it isn't at least we felt good about it on
the way to something that maybe let us down a
little bit. But what's like, how bad is that at
least we were hoping for the best. At least we
had a positive attitude going into it. That actually, to
(10:51):
me is a win win win, even if it's not
as great as we thought thinking it could be.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is still hopeful. Hopeful is always better. It feels better.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So yes, choose to be optimistic. It feels better. Thank
you Dali Lama. So our next Dhali Lama quote. This
is actually something that I hope doesn't offend anyone. This
is Thursday, and I remember when I picked this, I
was like, I hope this doesn't offend anyone who is religious,
(11:20):
because I understand the power of faith and the role
that plays in so many people's lives. But I do
appreciate the fact that you can be supremely religious and
still agree with the Dali Lama on this. He said,
we can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
(11:41):
survive without human affection. I thought this was so powerful.
It doesn't take away from the divine or faith, but
it does at least acknowledge something that I think a
lot of us forget how important it is to be hugged,
to be tough, to hold hands with someone. It can
(12:02):
be platonic, it doesn't have to be romantic. But we
know babies cannot survive if they are not helped. And
it just speaks to our need and desire and hopefully
like just our willingness to give this to another human.
We all need to be touched physically.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know, I liked yeah to your and you emphasize
the religion part of it. It doesn't take away from religion.
It more so just elevates the idea that human connection
is everything, Yeah, that we all need. Isn't every show,
every reality, any show you can name, is about human
(12:40):
connection and relationship. Everything and everybody is seeking some approval
or comfort or aren't we all don't we all just
need that and want this? So yeah, And the way
he put it again, this was simple as anything. You
can live without some stuff, but you can't vibe without
(13:00):
this live or even two different words, that's true and
hit differently. You just cannot exist without human connection.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it's like so many of us are seeking belonging
And yeah, I guess I went to the physical but
it could also just be emotional affection. There just to
know that someone cares. And yes, it is beautiful to
believe in the divine and believe in oneself. That's meditation,
(13:30):
that's religion. I think both of those things are super important.
But we need to be able to connect with one another,
to be affectionate with one another. So I just I
love how he put that one more time for you all.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot
survive without human affection. So I just took this as like,
(13:52):
hug someone, smile at someone, touch someone.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's okay, and we all need it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You know what that one you said, smile at someone?
That is so important. It is if you ever make
eye contact with anybody, please smile. Don't And you know
we've been in playing buildings and offices and when day
and day where you're going through a narrow hallway that's
only wide enough for two people and you walk past
someone and for some reason they try to avoid eye contact.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That thing.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's awkward.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yes, don't ever avoid eye contact. Don't ever avoid someone.
You know the number of times you and I have
been in an elevator, we have these awkward moments yes,
because I require people to speak to me.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You always say good day or hello or hi, good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And when they come in sometimes and I say hello,
and they don't speak. When they get ready to get off,
I say, have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Still, It's true what a lot of people have air
pods in they're not always paying attention. But like that's
a missed opportunity to connect.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Stop. Some are just zoned out.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
They don't expect anybody to speak, or they their heads down.
You don't expect human interaction.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I think we're gonna more and more unfortunately towards that
with all of the just the devices we.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Have and the headphones.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Y I can be your friend now, you don't need
a best friend because AI can.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But actually I believe the Dalai Lama said it best
that we do.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
We do regardless.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Everyone craves human affection. So you know what, even if
you don't get a response, smile anyway, say hello anyway,
Hug someone anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We got a Friday quote and a bonus quote that
I don't even know about yet.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday edition of our Morning Run,
where we go over our quotes of the day, and
we have a bonus quote for you as usual on
this Sunday, but this is a week that we have
devoted to the one and only Dali Lama, who turned
nine day ninety exactly one week ago today. Actually, so
(16:01):
we spent our week quoting him, and there were so
many to choose from. It was not hard at all
to come up with a bonus quote. But we will
give you first our Friday quote from the Dali Lama.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
He said this.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If
you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He's just stopped talking after that. Drop, Mike, just go't
love out your day, live the rest of your days
in silence. That is amazing. That is amazing, amazing, amazing. Compassion, compassion, compassion.
Why do why is this so difficult? And it is
we do that with ourselves and everybody else. That is
a difficult thing to extend, right compassion to ourselves and
(16:44):
to others.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Why isn't it interesting?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So many people will draw the line between empathy and compassion.
So empathy is something that you can relate to, right,
So you're like, yeah, I've been there, I empathize with you.
I know what it's like to be you, but that
is so rarely the case. Oftentimes, what is required of
us as humans, or what I would hope should be
(17:09):
something you would strive towards, is to be compassion even
when you don't understand, Even when you can't possibly put
yourself in the other person's shoes, you can at least
show compassion like I don't know what it's like to
be you. I don't know what it is that you're
going through, but I see that you're hurting, and I
feel for you and I'm with you. That's compassion, and
(17:31):
so yes, when you can give that to someone else,
you can give someone joy. But truly, when you are
being that person which is selfless and saying I don't know,
but doing it anyway, that actually does bring you joy too.
It really is like everybody wins, nobody loses, but somehow
it's so hard to do in the moment.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Sometimes he said it to Dalai. Lama says he wants
to live in another forty years.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Hah, I hope he does.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I think I might have another forty years in me,
but I would love to continue to get Dali Lami
quotes yes for the next forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Years, if we if we could actually pull out of
a hat a Dalai Lama quote every day we and
like just to remind yourself how to live better. And honestly,
some of these quotes like this has been a big
source of fuel for us every day. Like sometimes it's
very hard to do what we do, we're a little tired,
(18:29):
and then when we get to the court of the day,
we're rejuvenated. It's like this moment, we were like, okay,
another reminder on not just to remember to live well
and better, but like, this is our day today, this
is what we have right now. And that's what I
love about folks like the Dolly Lama who devote themselves
to just that, to reminding themselves and others how to
(18:50):
live each and every day. So this was amazing. If
you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you
want to be happy, practice compassion.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
A drum roll, please the bonus quote that you always
pull out of your hat on Sundays. I haven't seen
this one at all. So another Dolly Loma quote and
a bonus.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Which you got.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So this is a little bit of a long winded one.
Whoa but because so many of his are short and
sweet and to the point.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
This was a more This is a longer one, but
I loved it. Not, So here we go.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We don't need more money, we don't need greater success
or fame. We don't need the perfect body or even
the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we
have a mind which is all the basic equipment we
need to achieve complete happiness.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How's that food for thought?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Say the last say that last line again.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind
which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve
complete happiness.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Okay, yeah, okay, now none with them, now with them?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Now with them.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But that's the fight, right, Isn't that the battle?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It is our own minds, our own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
That and I think that's the thing that we have
found almost You've used a lot of quotes that go
back quite literally.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
A thousand years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yes, and they're fighting the same battles, yes, mentally in
how to I guess, find happiness, find peace, to be settled,
to be content, to be all these things in your
life you want. But it's all boils down to your own.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Mind, how many different ways. And we'll keep doing this
with our quotes of the day do we talk about
how we all are suffering?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Is our own?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We create our own suffering. Yes, obviously there can be
physical suffering, things that are out of our control. But mostly,
if you're being honest, when you are upset, anxious, depressed, scared,
like just whatever it is that's causing pain, it's almost
(21:31):
always our minds. I'm going to read the whole thing.
I'm going to take it all because really, this is
why I made this the bonus quote. I knew it
was long, but it's so powerful. Okay, we don't need
more money, we don't need greater success or fame with you.
(21:52):
We don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate.
Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind,
which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve
complete happiness.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Damn, I mean that's it. We're all equipped. What are
you going to do with it?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You have been given the tool that you need. How
are you using that tool? That is man?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It requires discipline, it requires I think even experience to
know what not to do. And even when we know
what not to do, we still do it.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
But if we can.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Catch ourselves and say stop, I am here, I am
alive I have right now, I'm healthy, I'm happy. Whatever
it is that you can say is a blessing, and
you lean on that and you say thankful, stay thankful,
and you are grateful for what you have and you
aren't thinking about what you don't have or what you
should have or what could have been or what should
(22:57):
have been. But if you just accept it really is
isn't it about acceptance and gratitude. That's kind of what
it is in the end of the day. But I
love how you put it, because we're always looking for
more or some external source that could make us better, greater, happier,
more joyful. Actually, we have everything we need right now.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You nailed it on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Great, Well, I didn't nail it actually the Dali Lama.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Did you want to do it in a bonus Dalai
Lama week?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
This was so easy, right?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh no, this was the easiest week ever, I have
to say, of picking out quotes because there were so
many to choose from, and so yes, I encourage you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We encourage you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
If you're listening to this you like what you heard,
google Dali Lama quotes that you will find so many more.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
There's like it's just remarkable.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And I would also say like I love the fact
that it isn't about a specific religion or any specific ethnicity.
This is universal. It doesn't matter who you pray to
or what you believe in. The dollia can guide you
to a place of peace, and that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Is what we're all looking for. So thank you for
listening on this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We appreciate you as always on MENI probak On behalf
of my partner TJ.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
Thank you,
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