All Matthieu Ricard Quotes
- Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others Create
- The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. Able
- If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind Future
- We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. Control
- Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. Blissing
- If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt — it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors… Avoid
- Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be… Alone
- Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind. Destroy
- To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. Essential
- Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives. Inspirational
- Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? Condition
- The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret… Change
- No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after… Automatic
- Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way. Able
- When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Anticipation
- Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… Action
- Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb Bomb
- We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task… Ability
- For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least,… Always Possible
- Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences… Able
- It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. Bravery
- Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in… Empathy
- Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions. Action
- Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain Anyone
- Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus,… Activated