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.
THICH NHAT HANHBe part of the miraculous moment.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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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 greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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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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