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Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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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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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
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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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Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
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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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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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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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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
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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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The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
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In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.
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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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