Matthieu Ricard, PhD, is a French Buddhist monk, author, translator, humanitarian, and photographer. He’s best known for his work on happiness, altruism, veganism, and the link between ancient wisdom and science.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?