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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Intentionality fuels the master’s journey. Every master is a master of vision.
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
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Why are angry women so threatening to others? If we are guilty, depressed, or self-doubting, we stay in place. We do not take action except against our own selves and we are unlikely to be agents of personal and social change. In contrast, angry women may change and challenge the lives of us all.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.