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Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.