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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.
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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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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.
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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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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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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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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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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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I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
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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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