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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
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.
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Today is the most important day of our lives.
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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.
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.
