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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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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.
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