People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
THICH NHAT HANHAt any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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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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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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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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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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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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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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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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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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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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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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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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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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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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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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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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