The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
Matthieu RicardYou can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
Matthieu RicardWhile it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Matthieu RicardNo change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.
Matthieu Ricard