Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

When one...consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

You don't have to wait till the beginning of a new year to make resolutions for yourself. It's all about loving and taking care of the only body you will ever have...cherish it, love it, embrace it...Because when you do...It begins to show.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.