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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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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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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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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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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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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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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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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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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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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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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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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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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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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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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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