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.
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
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
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
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…
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success - Matthieu Ricard
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. - Matthieu Ricard
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. - Matthieu Ricard
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. - Matthieu Ricard
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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
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…
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
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…
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 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…
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