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.
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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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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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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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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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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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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