Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
THICH NHAT HANHMy actions are my only true belongings.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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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.
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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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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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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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