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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Nhat Hanh

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If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
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Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.
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When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.
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To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.
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Reconciliation is to understand both sides to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.
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To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
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I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.
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The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.
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I think, therefore I am ... not here.
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We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.
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Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
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Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.
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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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People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
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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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If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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Compassion is a verb.
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