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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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Catch Freedom People Release Suffering View
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
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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People Phenomena Reality
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Arrive Destination Home Step
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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Angry Desire Fear Freedom Inspirational Victim Worth
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Awake Illusion Inspirational Separate
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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Conscious Deep Depend Inspirational Life Quality Seed
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
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Come Comfortable Disturb Enjoyment Heart Outside Silence Situation
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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Inspirational Joy Morning Positive Smile Source
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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Glance Love Movement Possible
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
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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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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Action Business Change Inspirational Produce Signature
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Break Up Failure Lack Suffering Understand Yourself
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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Arrive Couple Enjoyment Love Thinking Walk

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