Matthieu Ricard Quotes

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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 we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

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  Buddhism, Self, Long

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• 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, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

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  Way, Evolution, Transformation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

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  Yoga, Worry, Needs

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• 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 built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

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  Maturity, Skills, Long

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• Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

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  Wisdom, Buddhism, Suffering

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• At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

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  Past, Mind, Want

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• Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

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  Emotional, Skills, Inner Peace

  "Happiness as a Skill" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2017.

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• To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

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  Love Life, Essentials, Oneself

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Ego

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• 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 fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

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  Happiness, Mean, Healthy

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

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  Looks, World, May

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

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  Emotional, Compassion, Skills

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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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  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

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• Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

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  States, Authentic Happiness, Activity

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

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  Quality, Way, Our Lives

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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  Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

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• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

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  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

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• We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

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  Morning, Worst Enemy, Mind

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. Januart 23, 2015.

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• Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

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  Happiness, Yoga, Desire

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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 the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

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  Skills, Effort, Mind

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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 natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

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• We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.

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  Beautiful, What Matters, Mind

  "The habits of happiness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2004.

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• When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

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  Thinking, Doors, Hearing

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

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  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

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  Meditation, Tree, Brain

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