132 Quotes by Matthieu Ricard

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don’t know it. How.

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

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.

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

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

We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed to our faults that we can barely imagine what life would be like without them. The prospect of change makes us dizzy.

The happiest man is he who has no trace of malice in his soul. PLATO.

Recognize suffering, Eliminate its source, End it By practicing the path.

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.