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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
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.
The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If we do not nourish our love, it will die and may turn into hate. If we want love to last, we have to nurture it and give it food every day. Hate is the same; if we don't feed it, it cannot survive.
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.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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.
Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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.
