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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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Break Up Failure Lack Suffering Understand Yourself
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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Glance Love Movement Possible
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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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Body Cloud Expression Gratitude Health Tree
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
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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Fear Focus Future Past Worry
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
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Arrive Happiness Inspirational Peace Run Thinking
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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Earth Feet Kiss Peace Serenity Walk
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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Birth Concept Death Mind Reality Transcend
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
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Future Gone Life Moments Ourselves Past Present Touch
Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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Compassion Inspirational Learning Suffering Understand
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
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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Allow Body Genuine Healing Heart Human Lost Mind Relax Wisdom Worry

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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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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