"Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful."
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"Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves."
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"In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God."
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"Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live."
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"Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit."
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"Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish."
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"As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future."
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"In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings."
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"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
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"Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers."
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"It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."
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"Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing."
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"I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me."
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"We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness."
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"I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future."
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"Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love."
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"There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching."
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"When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it."
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"In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming."
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"Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes."
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