The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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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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We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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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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Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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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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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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