Today is the most important day of our lives.
THICH NHAT HANHMany people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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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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The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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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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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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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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Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
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