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

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
Bhikkhu
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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 have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.
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There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
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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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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is I cannot stand it, and that component is enhancing pain so much.
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Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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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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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
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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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[You] can dramatically change [your emotions] to be more altruistic, more loving, more compassionate, more attentive, and especially to have an inner sort of confidence and strength that you know that you have the resources to deal with whatever comes your way.
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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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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