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.
THICH NHAT HANHAnger 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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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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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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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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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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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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The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
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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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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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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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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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