"What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps."
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"As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing."
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"Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief."
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"Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late."
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"To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way."
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"Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion."
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"Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings."
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"If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid."
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"If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?"
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"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet."
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"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."
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"Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing."
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"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet."
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"Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything."
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"If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important."
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"If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both."
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"I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice."
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"Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion."
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"Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations."
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"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are."
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