The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
THICH NHAT HANHDeep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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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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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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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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 we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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