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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Matthieu Ricard
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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
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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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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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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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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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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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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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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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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.
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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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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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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation you could call that emotional balance.
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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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A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is I cannot stand it, and that component is enhancing pain so much.
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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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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We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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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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