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.
THICH NHAT HANHThe way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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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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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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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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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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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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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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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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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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