Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Mindfulness

Quotes about: Mindfulness

• 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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  Years, Mindfulness, Patterns

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

• The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

• Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Buddhism

• In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Meditation, Leaving

• 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

• Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Caring, Building Up, Giving

  "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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