Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
THICH NHAT HANHWe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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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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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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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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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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?
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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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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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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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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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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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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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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 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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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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