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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
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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Believe Inspirational Pride Thinking
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Attention Bloom Embrace Flower Gift Inspirational Love
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Anchor Breathe Clouds Conscious Feeling Inspirational Sky Wind
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
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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Conscious Deep Depend Inspirational Life Quality Seed
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Home Meditation Realize Touch
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
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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Angry Human Learning Peace Smile
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
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
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
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Air Inspirational Mind Need Plant Silence
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Attachment Greatness Path Spiritual View
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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Enemy Human Ignorance Injustice Person Violence
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Available Happiness Help Please Positive Yourself

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