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Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Know that life can only be found in the present moment.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
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To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.
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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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Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
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Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
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You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.
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People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.
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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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Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
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The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
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It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice
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A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.
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Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.
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Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
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