Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I am mentally bifocal.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

I can wake up crazy or normal; it depends.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

It's all in the mind, you know.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.