When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
THICH NHAT HANHWithout being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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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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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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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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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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In true love, there is no pride.
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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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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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