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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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
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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Business Growth Inspirational Lotus Mud Strategy Success
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
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Attachment Greatness Path Spiritual View
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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Action Business Change Inspirational Produce Signature
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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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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Deep Hurt Importance Inspirational Moments Self Love Understand
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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Couple Deep Love Presence Relationship
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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Breathe Inspirational Morning One Liner Patience Smile
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.
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Body Family Feeling Home Need Perception Suffering Take Care
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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Glance Love Movement Possible
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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Future Gone Life Moments Ourselves Past Present Touch
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Body Cloud Expression Gratitude Health Tree
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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Optimism Problem Reality Thinking Truth
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
What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Inspirational Look Seek

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