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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
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.
Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Today is the most important day of our lives.
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.
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
