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.
THICH NHAT HANHTake my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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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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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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Only the present moment contains life.
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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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