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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.
Matthieu Ricard
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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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 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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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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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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[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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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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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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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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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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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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We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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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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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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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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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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