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.
THICH NHAT HANHMany people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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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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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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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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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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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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My actions are my only true belongings.
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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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Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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