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No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.
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If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
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To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
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Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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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We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.
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In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.
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Know that life can only be found in the present moment.
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In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.
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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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Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment we sacrifice true life.
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
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When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
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The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.
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Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
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