In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
THICH NHAT HANHBirth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
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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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In true love, there is no pride.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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