Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
THICH NHAT HANHA true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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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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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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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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