To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Interpretation
Loving oneself is foundational to finding joy in life and in making others happy.
This quote by Matthieu Ricard emphasizes the importance of self-love as a prerequisite to experiencing a fulfilling life. It suggests that true happiness stems from not only recognizing one's own worth but also extends to the joy we derive from bringing happiness to those around us, indicating interconnectedness between self and others in the pursuit of a joyful existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-esteem.
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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