"No change occurs if we just let our……" — Matthieu Ricard
"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 day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged."
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55 Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
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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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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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