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An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.
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Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
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Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
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If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?
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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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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
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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. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.
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Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
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Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.
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If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
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The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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There is no birth, there is no death there is no coming, there is no going there is no same, there is no different there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.
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Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.
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May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.
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