Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
THICH NHAT HANHFor things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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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Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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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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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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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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