I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANHAs we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Your presence is a miracle.
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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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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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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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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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