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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
Bhikkhu
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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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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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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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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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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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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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I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.
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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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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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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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