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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
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Come Comfortable Disturb Enjoyment Heart Outside Silence Situation
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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Bloom Deal Inspirational Negative Positive Touch Try Wrong
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Awake Illusion Inspirational Separate
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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Abundance Available Breathe Eat Food Happiness Smile Walk
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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People Phenomena Reality
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Change Compassion Inspirational Moments Ourselves Smile World
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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Approach Awake Gentle Mind Smile Source True Understand
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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Enjoyment Giving Inspirational Life Live Myself Positive Promise
Be part of the miraculous moment.
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Inspirational Miracle Moments One Liner Positive
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
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Body Family Feeling Home Need Perception Suffering Take Care
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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Brand Compassion Entrepreneur Live Moments Morning Smile
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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Body Breathe Calm Inspirational Mind Moments Smile
If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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Action Emerge Foundation Heart Help Love Miracle Understand
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Couple Feeling Freedom Love Person Positive
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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Optimism Problem Reality Thinking Truth

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