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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.

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
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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Alive Aware Breathe Enlightenment Greatness Touch
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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Body Breathe Calm Inspirational Mind Moments Smile
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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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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Be Yourself Element Happiness Need Precious Struggle
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
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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Believe Difficult Future Hope Important Moments Present
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
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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Distance Love Togetherness True Love Yourself
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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Angry Breathe Conscious Feeling Focus Rise Storm
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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Confidence Enlightenment Happiness Hope Joy Practice Speak Trust
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Attachment Greatness Path Spiritual View
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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Brand Compassion Entrepreneur Live Moments Morning Smile
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Action Adversity Aware Effective Love Non Violence Suffering
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

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