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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
Bhikkhu
Geneticist
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Yoga
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
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Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
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When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.
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