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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
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To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation you could call that emotional balance.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
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Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.
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Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
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The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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