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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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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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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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Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.
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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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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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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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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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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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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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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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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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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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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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