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.
THICH NHAT HANHWe humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Your presence is a miracle.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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In true love, there is no pride.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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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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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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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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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 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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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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My actions are my only true belongings.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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