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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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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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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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