"If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world."
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"When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object."
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"Life is available only in the present moment."
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"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."
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"In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare."
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"If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy."
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"Our own life has to be our message."
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"Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world."
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"What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking."
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"Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions."
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"May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day."
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"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence."
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"The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice."
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"Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment."
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"Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path."
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"Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free."
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"The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom."
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"Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment"
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"Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware."
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"To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy."
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