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.
THICH NHAT HANHWhen you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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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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Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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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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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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