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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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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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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.
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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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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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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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You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
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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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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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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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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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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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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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