The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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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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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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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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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.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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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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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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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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