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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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
THICH NHAT HANH

Be Yourself Missing Moments Ourselves Present
We 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.
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Allow Body Genuine Healing Heart Human Lost Mind Relax Wisdom Worry
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.
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Endeavor Habit Joy Live Ourselves Relax Run Success Time
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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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
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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Glance Love Movement Possible
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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Help Kindness Listen Suffering
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Break Up Let Go Permanent Suffering Thinking
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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Be Yourself Element Happiness Need Precious Struggle
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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Cultivate Happiness Love Nourish Ourselves Peace
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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Existence Love Recognize
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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Earth Feet Kiss Peace Serenity Walk
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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Brand Compassion Entrepreneur Live Moments Morning Smile
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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Concentrate Inspirational Myself Problem Time Worry
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Inspirational Life Live Lose Yourself
When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Experience Healing Inspirational Learning Struggle Suffering
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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Compassion Condition Couple Kindness Love
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Attention Bloom Embrace Flower Gift Inspirational Love
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Choose Healing Positive Refresh Touch Wonderful Yourself
The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
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Angry Desire Fear Freedom Inspirational Victim Worth
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Ability Anxiety Come Dwell Ill Moments Present Time
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
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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Enemy Human Ignorance Injustice Person Violence
Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Aware Happiness Inspirational Life Miracle Positive
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Concentration Inspirational Investigation Joy Let Go Mind Phenomena
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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Believe Difficult Future Hope Important Moments Present
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.
THICH NHAT HANH

Come Comfortable Disturb Enjoyment Heart Outside Silence Situation

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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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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