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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
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There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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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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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
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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't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
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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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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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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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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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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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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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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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.
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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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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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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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