Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
THICH NHAT HANHYour presence is a miracle.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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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 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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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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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 do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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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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