Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
THICH NHAT HANHReal love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Your presence is a miracle.
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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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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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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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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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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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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
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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.
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