If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
THICH NHAT HANHMany people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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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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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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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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Only the present moment contains life.
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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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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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