Matthieu Ricard Quotes

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important. I feel there is a lot of unhealthiness when we stuff our feelings out of fear rather than face them and deal with our issues.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important.

By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.

If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.

If we want sincere harmony, peace and joy in our lives, we can have them, but we must be willing to do the work. We must make maintaining an awareness of our spiritual natures first in our lives. Our inner world is the architect of our external world. We don't lose faith in the goodness of life because we become angry and depressed. We become angry and depressed because we lose faith in the goodness of life.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.