Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? — Matthieu Ricard Conditions Copy Share Image
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality — Matthieu Ricard Confidence Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being. — Matthieu Ricard Activity Copy Share Image
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love. — Matthieu Ricard Education Copy Share Image
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. — Matthieu Ricard Illusory Copy Share Image
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. — Matthieu Ricard Able Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Desire 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
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard Evil Copy Share Image
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I… — Matthieu Ricard Born Copy Share Image
Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry. — Matthieu Ricard Anxiety 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
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put… — 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
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
“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
“Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle… — Matthieu Ricard Authentic happiness 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 Amount 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 Another way Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Being true 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
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. — Matthieu Ricard Essentials Copy Share Image
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard Buddhism Copy Share Image
You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work. — Matthieu Ricard Angry 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… — Matthieu Ricard Committing Copy Share Image
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and… — Matthieu Ricard Altruism Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle… — Matthieu Ricard Activity Copy Share Image
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind. — Matthieu Ricard Awakened Copy Share Image
“May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!” — Matthieu Ricard Every moment Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't. — Matthieu Ricard Huge Copy Share Image
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard Adverse Copy Share Image
“The only ‘failure’ of quantum theory is its inability to provide a natural framework for our prejudices.”1” — Matthieu Ricard Failure Copy Share Image
We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy. — Matthieu Ricard Best friend Copy Share Image
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