Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

I don't really get angry any more.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

He who angers you conquers you.