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When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.
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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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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
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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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It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the 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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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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Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion great understanding goes with great compassion.
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Compassion is a verb.
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We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.
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Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
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If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
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Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
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You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.
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