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From Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
- By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a…
- Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
- Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in…
- True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
- Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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