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.
THICH NHAT HANHHope 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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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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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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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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