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.
THICH NHAT HANHEvery thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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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 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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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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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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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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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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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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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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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