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.
THICH NHAT HANHThe amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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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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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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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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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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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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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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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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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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