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Whatever you train, you change your brain.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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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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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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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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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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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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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.
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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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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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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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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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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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