Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
THICH NHAT HANHWithout suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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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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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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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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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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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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 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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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