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Embracing Joy: Thoughts and Inspiring Quotes on the Path to a Happy Life
What is the Secret of a Happy Life
Matthieu Ricard was named the world's happiest man.
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
Who had the happiest life ever?
Matthieu Ricard is an ordained Buddhist monk and an internationally best-selling author of books about altruism, animal rights, happiness and wisdom.
Ricard was lightly dubbed “the happiest man alive,” after neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin scanned his brain during meditation and found the highest capacity for happiness ever recorded.
Matthieu Ricard is a Nepalese-French writer, photographer, translator, and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
For Matthieu Ricard, 77 years old, happiness is, in fact, a state of fullness that lasts through all the ups and downs of life.
In “Happiness“, the author uses the Buddhist term Sukha to refer to this state of well-being, resulting from a healthy and serene state of mind.
If you want to be happy, be — Leo Tolstoy.
