People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
THICH NHAT HANHThe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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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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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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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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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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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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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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