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You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.
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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
