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#1. Paraphrasing Spinoza, Alexandre adds, "In pity, sadness comes first. I am sad that the other is suffering, but I don't really love him. In compassion, love comes first."23 The
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#2. Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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#3. Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.
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#4. Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
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#5. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
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#6. There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
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#7. We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the way our mind functions.
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#8. Tibetan poet Shabkar said: One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles.
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#9. Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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#10. The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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#11. What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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#12. Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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#13. Another form of laziness is thinking: 'That's not for me; it's beyond my abilities. I'd rather not get involved with it.' In other words, you give up the race before you reach the starting line.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind.
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#16. Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.
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#17. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
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#18. Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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#19. Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.
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#20. Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live.
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#21. 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
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#22. 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.
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#23. It is the only thing we can do. ... Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate added to this world makes it still more inhospitable. - ETTY HILLESUM29
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#24. The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. - GANDHI T
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#25. Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
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#26. May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!
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#27. We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them ... it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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#28. Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
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#31. Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.
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#32. It is not possible to live happily if one does not lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life, or to lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life if one is not happy. EPICURUS
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#33. We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
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#34. Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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#35. I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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#36. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
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#37. He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.
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#41. According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.
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#42. Demanding immediate results is an aspect of unsteadiness of mind or laziness.
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#43. True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
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#44. In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and - if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom - disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.
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#45. Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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#46. 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.
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#47. It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
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#50. I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.
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#53. 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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#54. Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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#55. 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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#56. In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.
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#57. It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.
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#58. We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.
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#59. The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
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#60. 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.
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#61. The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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#62. Love is the only thing that doubles every time it's given, said Albert Schweitzer.
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#63. Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Recognize suffering, Eliminate its source, End it By practicing the path.
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#66. We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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#67. To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
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#68. The happiest man is he who has no trace of malice in his soul. PLATO
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#69. When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
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#70. Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
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#71. For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
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#72. That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
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#73. Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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#74. As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.
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#75. No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.
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#76. Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
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#77. Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.
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#78. Happiness can't be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world - a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.
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#79. Altruism is like rings in the water when you toss a pebble. At first the circles are very small, then they get larger, and finally they embrace the entire surface of the ocean. - ALEXANDRE JOLLIEN
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