When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
THICH NHAT HANHKeeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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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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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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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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