The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
THICH NHAT HANHTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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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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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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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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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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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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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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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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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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