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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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
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
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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Air Inspirational Mind Need Plant Silence
When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Experience Healing Inspirational Learning Struggle Suffering
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Arrive Happiness Inspirational Peace Run Thinking
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
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.
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Alive Aware Breathe Enlightenment Greatness Touch
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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People Phenomena Reality
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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Expression Generosity Love Mind Person Spend Time
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
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Body Cloud Expression Gratitude Health Tree
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Future Gone Life Moments Ourselves Past Present Touch
Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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Morning Peace Positive Possible Seek
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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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Abandonment Inspirational Need Reveal View
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Available Happiness Help Please Positive Yourself

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