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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!
Matthieu Ricard
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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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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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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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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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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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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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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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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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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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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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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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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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