Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
THICH NHAT HANHPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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My actions are my only true belongings.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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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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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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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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