The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
THICH NHAT HANHBe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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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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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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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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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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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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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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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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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.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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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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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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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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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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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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