When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
THICH NHAT HANHHope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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