Top Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Matthieu Ricard Biography

Matthieu Ricard (Nepali: माथ्यु रिका, born 15 February 1946) is a French writer and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.

Read about Matthieu Ricard in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Broken, Profound, Serenity, Useless

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Buddhism, Counts, Courage, Enormity, Suffering, Tasks

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well - being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

Environment, Long, Reconcile, Short, Three

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.

Buddhism, Illuminate, Mean, Mind, Nature, Wisdom

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 past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

Fruit, Know, Lives, Mind, Past

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.

Accomplishment, Buddhism, Creativity, Happiness, Names, Seek

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Hate, Ideas, Mind, Opposites, Same, Toward

Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.

Age, Learn, Peaceful, People, Various

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Condition, Mind, Suffering, Translate, Translates

I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish
have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

Direction, Giving, Placebo, Think, Thinking, Wish

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.

Acknowledging, Changed, Forget, Forgetting, Past, Way

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Activity, Authentic Happiness, Linked, State, States

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Bravery, Courage, Matters, Task, Tasks

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

Compassion, Dealt, Definitely, Distress, Openness, Suffering

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Confusion, Goal, Meditation, Precisely, Relaxed

You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others. "

Develop, Life, Live, Motivation, Real, Worry

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.

Balance, Compassion, Developed, Emotional, Skills

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

Directly, Like, Lollipop, Mind, Optimism

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

Add, Body, Pointless, Problem, Suffering, Worry

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Empathy, Faculty, Feelings, Pain, Resonate

››

Matthieu Ricard Biography

Contact Us

About us