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 HANHIn true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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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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Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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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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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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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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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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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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