For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
THICH NHAT HANHHuman 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Your presence is a miracle.
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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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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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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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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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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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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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