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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.
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Alone Darkness Kindness Love Myself Practice Smile Take Care
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
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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Angry Breathe Conscious Feeling Focus Rise Storm
There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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Concentrate Inspirational Myself Problem Time Worry
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Attachment Greatness Path Spiritual View
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
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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Excitement Happiness Peace People Thinking True
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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Expression Generosity Love Mind Person Spend Time
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Concentration Inspirational Investigation Joy Let Go Mind Phenomena
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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Couple Deep Love Presence Relationship
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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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
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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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Home Meditation Realize Touch
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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Acceptance Attitude Be Yourself Beautiful Inspirational Need
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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Business Growth Inspirational Lotus Mud Strategy Success
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
THICH NHAT HANH

Glance Love Movement Possible

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