Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb — Matthieu Ricard Bombs Copy Share Image
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation. — Matthieu Ricard Involved Copy Share Image
If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind — Matthieu Ricard Future Copy Share Image
“The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.” — Matthieu Ricard Eternity Copy Share Image
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. — Matthieu Ricard Buddhism Copy Share Image
Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives. — Matthieu Ricard Change Copy Share Image
While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. — Matthieu Ricard Change Copy Share Image
You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is… — Matthieu Ricard Add Copy Share Image
Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude. — Matthieu Ricard Attitude Copy Share Image
Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and… — Matthieu Ricard Adversity Copy Share Image
Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be… — Matthieu Ricard Altruism Copy Share Image
To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes,… — Matthieu Ricard Acknowledging Copy Share Image
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Compassion Copy Share Image
Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that… — Matthieu Ricard Able Copy Share Image
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from… — Matthieu Ricard Brain Copy Share Image
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day.… — Matthieu Ricard Built Copy Share Image
There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally;… — Matthieu Ricard Climate Copy Share Image
“According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely… — Matthieu Ricard Happiness Copy Share Image
Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully… — Matthieu Ricard Able 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… — Matthieu Ricard Despite 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 Arise 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 Behinds Copy Share Image
When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't… — Matthieu Ricard Abuse Copy Share Image
Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters.… — Matthieu Ricard Air Copy Share Image
“We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy,… — Matthieu Ricard Buddhism Copy Share Image
When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that… — Matthieu Ricard Care Copy Share Image
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos,… — Matthieu Ricard Blind Copy Share Image
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere… — Matthieu Ricard Arise 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… — Matthieu Ricard Action Copy Share Image
We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should… — Matthieu Ricard Achieve Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood. — Matthieu Ricard Childhood Copy Share Image
We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind. — Matthieu Ricard Change Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Altruism Copy Share Image
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard Buddhism Copy Share Image
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. — Matthieu Ricard Bravery Copy Share Image
If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry? — Matthieu Ricard Anxiety Copy Share Image
“There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.” — Matthieu Ricard Change Copy Share Image
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