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In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

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Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
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To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.
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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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Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
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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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It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice
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To condemn someone to death is to surrender it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.
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If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.
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Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.
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Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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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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Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
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Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
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I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.
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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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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.
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