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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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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion
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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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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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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
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While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
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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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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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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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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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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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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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If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
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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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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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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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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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