Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
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The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels FREE.
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I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight..I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
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The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
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There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
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If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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