The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
THICH NHAT HANHIn true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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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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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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 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.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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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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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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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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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