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A Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, and peace activist who popularized the practice of mindfulness in the West. His teachings emphasize the importance of living fully in the present moment, cultivating compassion, and finding peace amidst the chaos of daily life. Through his writings and retreats, he has inspired millions to embrace mindfulness as a path to healing and spiritual awakening, encouraging individuals to live with awareness and kindness.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh
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A Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, and peace activist who popularized the practice of mindfulness in the West. His teachings emphasize the importance of living fully in the present moment, cultivating compassion, and finding peace amidst the chaos of daily life. Through his writings and retreats, he has inspired millions to embrace mindfulness as a path to healing and spiritual awakening, encouraging individuals to live with awareness and kindness.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

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May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

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When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace, and love.

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Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

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Mindfulness... is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

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The main cause of your suffering is the seed of anger in you, because it has been watered too often, by yourself and by other people.

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In true love, you attain freedom. When you love, you bring freedom to the person you love.

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The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

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Life is illuminated by right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

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Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

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In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

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Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

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I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. ... Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

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When anger manifests in us, we must recognize and accept that anger is there and that it needs to be tended to. At this moment we are advised not to say anything, not to do anything out of anger. We immediately return to ourselves and invite the energy of mindfulness to manifest also.

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