Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• 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

• Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Our Words, Our Actions

• If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Impact, Meditation

• 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.

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  Compassion, Empathy, Brain

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Suffering, Openness

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Meditation, Emotion

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.

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  Determination, Pain, Motivation

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Cutting, Exercise, Maturity

  "The Happiest Man in the World". "Speaking of Faith" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 12, 2009.

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