Matthieu 6 Quotes

#1. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

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#2. One is not born wise; one becomes it.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!

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

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#9. The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. - GANDHI T

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live.

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#14. 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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#15. Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

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#16. 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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#17. Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

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

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#23. The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

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

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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