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To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become. (Matthieu Ricard)

I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.

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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.

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We cannot study everything at the same time.

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

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Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

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You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

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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.

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Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.

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Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. (Matthieu Ricard)

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others.

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Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

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Matthieu Ricard

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Occupation: French Writer
Born: February 9, 1946
Quotes count: 65
Wikipedia: Matthieu Ricard

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