If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
THICH NHAT HANHThe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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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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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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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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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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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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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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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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