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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Light, Air, Space

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Running, Practice, Stopping

"Stop Running, Start Being". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

Laughter, Struggle, Flower

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Kindness, Compassion, Worthy

Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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.

Grateful, Breathing, I Smile

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Uplifting, Thinking, Suffering

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

Healing, Wonderful, Refreshing

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

Hurt, Loving Yourself, Moments

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

Home, Feelings, Perception

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 01, 2016

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.

Life, Running, Being Yourself

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.153, Harmony

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Peaceful, Cooperation, Illusion

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Moving On, Depression, Letting Go

Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

Heart, Mean, Talking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions”, p.39, Parallax Press

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

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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.

Mean, Bridges, Mind

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Feb 29, 2016

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

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.

You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.

Yoga, Light, Different

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Lying, Quality, Consciousness

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

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.

Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

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

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Letting Go, Heal Itself, Giving

"Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Happiness, Peace, Morning

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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