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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.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
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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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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and 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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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 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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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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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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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 way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
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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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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 got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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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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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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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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