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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.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
Bhikkhu
Geneticist
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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 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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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
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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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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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