Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
THICH NHAT HANHPeople normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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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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In true love, you attain freedom.
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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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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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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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The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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