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.
THICH NHAT HANHPeople suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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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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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.
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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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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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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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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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