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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
Matthieu Ricard
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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
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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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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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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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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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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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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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