Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
THICH NHAT HANHIn true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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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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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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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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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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