"Let us live simply in the freshness of……" — Matthieu Ricard
"Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind."
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55 Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard has 55 quotes on this site.
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom,…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment.…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of…
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the…
— Chanakya
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
— Immanuel Kant
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
— Nhat Hanh
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may…
— Winston Churchill
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
— Dogen
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What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha…
— Shinjo Ito
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May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace…
— Surya Das
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The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
— Nikola Tesla
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