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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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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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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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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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Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.
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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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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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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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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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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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