Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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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Without 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.
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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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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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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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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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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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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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