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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.
Whatever you train, you change your brain.
We cannot study everything at the same time.
Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.
You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.
Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
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.
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.
Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.
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.
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.