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• Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

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  People, Miracle, Alive

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
  When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
  The practice is always to go back to oneself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Anger, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

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• Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

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  Thinking, Hands, Arriving

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.194, Parallax Press

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• At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Choices

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• Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

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  Moving, Past, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

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  Peace, Buddhist, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

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• The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

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  Lying, Quality, Consciousness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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  Love Is, Care, Capacity

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

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• The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

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  Happiness, Trust, Confidence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

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  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen (1992). “The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra”, Parallax Pr

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• I think, therefore I am ... not here.

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  Inspiring, Thinking, Influential

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment.

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  Buddhist, Regret, Mean

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• As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

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  Joy, Ultimate, Fearlessness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

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  Buddhist, Dwelling, Breathing

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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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  Happiness, Peace, Buddhism

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• If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Hands, Together

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• I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.

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  Regret, Past, Practice

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• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

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  Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then I will be free to live in peace." What is "this" ? A di­ploma, a job, a house, the payment of a debt? If yo u th ink that way, peace wi ll never come. There is always another "th is" that wi ll fo llow the present one. If you are not living in peace at this moment, you will never be able to . If you truly wa nt to be at peace, you must be at peace right now. Otherwise, there is only "the hope of peace some day.

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  Jobs, House, Waiting

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  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.

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  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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  Buddhist, Attitude, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Oct 23, 2014

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• You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

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  Happiness, Yoga, Land

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• In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Our World, Looks

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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