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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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We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.
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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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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 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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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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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of 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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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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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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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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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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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
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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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