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“It seemed to me both that I had known her for a long time and that I had known nothing and had not lived before she came.”
Ivan Turgenev
Love
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Transformation
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Memory
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Connection
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Awakening
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“The root-word “buddha” means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddha
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Awakening
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Understanding
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Wisdom
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Nature
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“A bodhisattva doesn’t have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Bodhisattva
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Awareness
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Awakening
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Effort
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Compassion
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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.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment
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Mindfulness
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Awakening
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Future
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Planet
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“Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening
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Service
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Wisdom
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Awareness
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Duty
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“In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddhism
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Mindfulness
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Insight
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Awakening
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Concentration
7.
“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vegetarian
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Awareness
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Consumption
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Awakening
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Action
8.
“May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening
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Realization
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Home
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Awareness
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Spirituality
9.
“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
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Mindfulness
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Peace
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Practice
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Awakening
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“Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening
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Awareness
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Society
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Responsibility
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Consciousness
11.
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening
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Illusion
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Unity
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Connection
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Interbeing
12.
“In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
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Awakening
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Environment
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Awareness
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Compassion
13.
“May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Heart
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Awakening
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Growth
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Beauty
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Abundance
14.
“The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Smile
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Awakening
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Gentleness
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Understanding
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Joy
15.
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Anton Chekhov
Inspiration
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Education
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Awakening
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Wisdom
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Learning
16.
“Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened? As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning. Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe? To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.”
Tara Brach
Enlightenment
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Wisdom
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Awareness
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Spirituality
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Awakening
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“Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.”
Tara Brach
Awakening
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Wisdom
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Compassion
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Transformation
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Spirituality
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“As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.”
Tara Brach
Fear
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Acceptance
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Awakening
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Resilience
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Growth
19.
“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”
Amit Ray
Awakening
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Awareness
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Infinite
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Consciousness
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Growth
20.
“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”
Amit Ray
Compassion
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Light
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Transformation
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Positivity
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Awakening
21.
“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”
Amit Ray
Life
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Inspiration
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Soul
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Melody
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Awakening
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“Our true nature is divine and eternal. Our true purpose of life is to awaken and realize that permanent divinity that is within us.”
Amit Ray
Nature
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Divinity
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Purpose
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Awakening
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Eternal
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“Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.”
Amit Ray
Meditation
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Vipassana
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Awakening
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Experience
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Journey
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“Wake up; the world is waiting for your sunny energy. You are the inspiration for many.”
Amit Ray
Energy
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Inspiration
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Motivation
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Awakening
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Sunny Energy
25.
“The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Perspective
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Understanding
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Awakening
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Individual Thought
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Open Mind
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“The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Ego
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Awakening
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Perspective
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Self-Awareness
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Truth
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“Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Awakening
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Truth
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Discovery
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Awareness
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Spirituality
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“Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Ego
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Awakening
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Wisdom
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Humility
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Truth
29.
“In the garden of gentle sanity, may you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Awakening
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Wisdom
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Humor
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Enlightenment
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Awareness
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“By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Surrender
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Awakening
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Perspective
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Growth
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Transformation
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