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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.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Happiness Life Problems Sadness

According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Happiness Happy Life

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

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Matthieu Ricard Bliss Brain Buddhist Buddhist Monk Change Changes Genetics Mango Mango Tree Meditation Molecular Geneticist Molecular Genetics Monk Science

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Compassion Happiness Perseverance Skill

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Compassion Happiness Perseverance Skill

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Animal Rights Animals Suffering

One is not born wise, one becomes it.

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Matthieu Ricard Advice Sage Wisdom Wise

It’s said that the Buddha’s enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard Buddhism Inspirational Spirtuality

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.

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Matthieu Ricard Empathy Brain Suffering

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

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Matthieu Ricard Mind Peace Of Mind

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

Matthieu Ricard Empathy Pain Suffering
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