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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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Love Life #Essentials #Oneself
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Way #Evolution #Transformation
“Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment,Â in the clarity of pure awakened mind.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mind #Clarity #Moments
“We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Morning #Mind #Enemy
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Simple #Confusion #Hatred
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Skills #Effort #Mind
“Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Children #Lying #Buddhism
“Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Buddhism #Suffering
“Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Yoga #Desire #States
“Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Yoga #Worry #Needs
“Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Believe #Mean #Humility
“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Lying #Buddhism #Roots
“We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Suffering #Matter #Causes
“Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Compassion #Our Words #Our Actions
“Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Empathy #Brain #Suffering
“By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Happiness #Mean #Healthy
“Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Hate #Opposites #Ideas
“Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mean #Buddhism #Understanding
“Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Buddhism #Envy #Suffering
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Emotional #Compassion #Skills
“Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Reality #Perception #Wells
“While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#World #May #Way
“Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Hatred #Mind #Negative
“The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Order #World #Able
“Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Attitude #Work Out #Fifty
“Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mind #Suffering #Translate
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Pain #Empathy #Feelings
“Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Happiness #Emotional #Profound
“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.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Maturity #Skills #Long
“Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.”
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Yoga #States #Fulfillment

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