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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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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.
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If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
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In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.
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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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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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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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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 basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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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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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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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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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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