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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Nhat Hanh

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Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.
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When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
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You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
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When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, I suffer and I want you to know - and he will, she will, appreciate it.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.
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In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.
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If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
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In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
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A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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I vow to live fully in each moment.
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To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.
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We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.
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If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.
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We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
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Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.
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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
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May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
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