Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
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More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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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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Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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