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Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
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 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 arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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.
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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.
