Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
THICH NHAT HANHFor things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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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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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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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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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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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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