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Be peace, don't just talk about it.

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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
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If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
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From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
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We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.
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Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
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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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How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?
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Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.
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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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