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
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation. — 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
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
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
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — 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
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
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 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
