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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
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Air Inspirational Mind Need Plant Silence
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Arrive Happiness Inspirational Peace Run Thinking
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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Body Family Feeling Home Need Perception Suffering Take Care
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.
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Action Emerge Foundation Heart Help Love Miracle Understand
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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Angry Breathe Conscious Feeling Focus Rise Storm
As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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Beautiful Believe Equivalent Finding God Goodness Life
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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Be Yourself Element Happiness Need Precious Struggle
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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Allow Body Genuine Healing Heart Human Lost Mind Relax Wisdom Worry
Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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Excitement Happiness Peace People Thinking True
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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Endeavor Habit Joy Live Ourselves Relax Run Success Time
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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Growth Person Seed Teacher Touch Transmit Wake Up Wisdom
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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Alive Aware Breathe Enlightenment Greatness Touch
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Available Business Inspirational Moments Opportunity Possiblity Realize
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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Believe Difficult Future Hope Important Moments Present
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Attention Bloom Embrace Flower Gift Inspirational Love

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