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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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Abandonment Inspirational Need Reveal View
The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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Believe Inspirational Pride Thinking
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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Concentrate Inspirational Myself Problem Time Worry
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Concentration Inspirational Investigation Joy Let Go Mind Phenomena
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Arrive Destination Home Step
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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Alive Hustle Inspirational One Liner Possible
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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Enemy Human Ignorance Injustice Person Violence
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Break Up Let Go Permanent Suffering Thinking
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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Endeavor Habit Joy Live Ourselves Relax Run Success Time
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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Action Business Change Inspirational Produce Signature
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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Earth Feet Kiss Peace Serenity Walk
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
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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Optimism Problem Reality Thinking Truth
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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Glance Love Movement Possible
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
THICH NHAT HANH

Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile

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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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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