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- 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…
- Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to…
- We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it…
- We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house,…
- It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like…
- If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.
- When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When…
- We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If…
- 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…
- The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how…
- To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you…
- In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
- We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.…
- Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
- Know that life can only be found in the present moment.
- If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving…
- If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful…
- If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care…
- Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
- Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must…
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