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flower sunshine space
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower. Nhat Hanh
flower heart reality
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality. Nhat Hanh
flower thinking doe
The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love. Nhat Hanh
flower two summertime
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering Nhat Hanh
flower anger walking-meditation
Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness. Nhat Hanh
flower heart blow
Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy. Nhat Hanh
flower worry positive-energy
With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible. Nhat Hanh
flower peaceful benefits
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. Nhat Hanh
flower looks cosmos
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos. Nhat Hanh
long interpretation patronizing
But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing. Martin Schulz
long emotion wanted
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. Martin Seligman
long things-will-get-better alive
As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better. Laini Taylor
long creative matter
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that. Laini Taylor
long people stuff
People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything. Lisa Marie Presley
long trying screw-ups
I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me. Lisa McMann
long dependable lasting
And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. Lisa Kleypas
long black politics
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read Johnny Cash
long waiting united-states
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. John Sununu
care decision
A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself. Billy Blanks
care company cut financial health money teach wants
This isn't about money because Sikorsky has plenty. The company has said it wants to cut our health care to teach us a financial lesson. That's not right and it won't fly. Rocco Calo
care developers
This is something we will look more at (in the future). There are developers out there who care about the community. Greg Lewis
care
This is something we have to take care of this year. Rep. Flores
care days definitely employment nobody report
This is one of the days when nobody is really going to care because the employment report was definitely weak. Cary Leahey
care game home obviously took
This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that. Gary Gait
care conscience dogs follow mean prisoner state takes
The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit. Jamie Fellner
care cut hard kids room school
You need to take care of the kids and the room temperature, ... For many school districts, they've been doing conservation for so long, it's hard to cut any more. Anne Morgan
care cleaning house supposed system taking
This is cleaning house and taking care of business. The way the system is supposed to work. Elliot Cohen