We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
THICH NHAT HANHDeep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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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.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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 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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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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 greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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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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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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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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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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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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Your presence is a miracle.
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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