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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Matthieu Ricard

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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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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
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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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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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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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