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.
THICH NHAT HANHSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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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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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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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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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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