Smile, breathe and go slowly.
THICH NHAT HANHSilence 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
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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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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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 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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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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