If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
THICH NHAT HANHThere 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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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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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.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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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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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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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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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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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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