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.
THICH NHAT HANHWe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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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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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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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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The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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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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Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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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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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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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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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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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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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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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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