Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
THICH NHAT HANHGo 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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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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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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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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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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