Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
Matthieu RicardThe ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
Matthieu RicardGood and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Matthieu RicardTo grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.
Matthieu RicardIf contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.
Matthieu Ricard