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Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

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In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word interbeing. We interare.
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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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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.
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Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.
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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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You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we inter-are? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.
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To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
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At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath
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Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?
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You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
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If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
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I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.
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The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma it is a process.
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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
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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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Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.
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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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If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
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