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We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.Thich Nhat Hanh
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A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.Thich Nhat Hanh
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[T]he flower is made of non-flower elements. We can describe the flower as being full of everything. There is nothing that is not present in the flower. We see sunshine, we see the rain, we see clouds, we see the earth, and we also see time and space in the flower. A flower, like everything else, is made entirely of non-flower elements. The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself, The flower is full of everything except one thing: a separate self, a separate identity. The flower cannot be by herself alone. The flower has to inter-be with the sunshine, the cloud and everything in the cosmos. If we understand being in terms of inter-being, then we are much closer to the truth. Inter-being is not being and it is not non-being. Inter-being means being empty of a separate identity, empty of a separate self, .Thich Nhat Hanh
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I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Direct experience is the only way.Thich Nhat Hanh
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When you lose a loved one, you suffer. But if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death. There is manifestation and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation. You have to be very keen and very alert in order to recognize the new manifestations of just one person.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.Thich Nhat Hanh
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We can only accept teachings that we have put into practice with our own awakened understanding and that we can see with our own experience to be true.Thich Nhat Hanh
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The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part. We are the same; our essence has gone into our children, our friends, and the entire universe. We have to find ourselves in those directions and not in the spent tea leaves.Thich Nhat Hanh
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The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.Thich Nhat Hanh