Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Altruism

Quotes about: Altruism

• 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.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Emotional, Compassion, Skills

• 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.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

• Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Meditation, Emotion

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Inner Peace, Inner Strength, Attention

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Empathy, Brain

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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