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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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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.
Matthieu Ricard
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Matthieu Ricard
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
Matthieu Ricard
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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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
Matthieu Ricard
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
Matthieu Ricard
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
Matthieu Ricard
Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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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.
Matthieu Ricard
Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
Matthieu Ricard
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.
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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.
Matthieu Ricard
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.
Matthieu Ricard
When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.
Matthieu Ricard
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Matthieu Ricard
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
Matthieu Ricard
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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