Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/5/2013

"In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/4/2013

"A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/3/2013

"If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/2/2013

"Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/1/2013

"If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/31/2013

"True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/30/2013

"Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/29/2013

"We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/28/2013

"The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice to attain the goal of enlightenment and awakening."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/24/2013

"Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/23/2013

"It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/22/2013

"One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/21/2013

"As a single drop of water fills a bucket so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket so do small deeds of good."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/16/2013

"Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/15/2013

"The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/13/2013

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/11/2013

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/10/2013

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/9/2013

"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/8/2013

"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/7/2013

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/6/2013

"Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/4/2013

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

 

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/3/2013

"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it."

 

~Dogen Zenji

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/2/2013

"In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light."

 

~Dogen Zenji

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/1/2013

"Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life."

 

~Dogen Zenji

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