I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that...… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
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… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These]… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
“The only ‘failure’ of quantum theory is its inability to provide a natural framework for our prejudices.”1” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share
![“If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases…” quote by Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/44d/matthieu-ricard-4004_another-way_if-contemplation-of-other-people-s-pain_1873079.jpg)
