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.
THICH NHAT HANHWe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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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 long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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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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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
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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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The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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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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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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