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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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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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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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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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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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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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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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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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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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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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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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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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