Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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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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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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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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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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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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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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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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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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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 greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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