“We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this… — 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
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — 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 Image
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
