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Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

Nhat Hanh

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You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.
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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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We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.
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Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.
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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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When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.
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Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
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I think, therefore I am ... not here.
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No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
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Happiness is not an individual matter.
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A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.
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There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
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If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?
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If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
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When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.
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