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

- Matthieu Ricard

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 fleeti…

- Matthieu Ricard

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 …

- Matthieu Ricard

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

- Matthieu Ricard

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

- Matthieu Ricard

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 edu…

- Matthieu Ricard

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

- Matthieu Ricard

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, a…

- Matthieu Ricard

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 c…

- Matthieu Ricard