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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
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking able taxation
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering
thinking soul mind
When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself. Demi Lovato
thinking interesting rhyme
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone. Demetri Martin
thinking iowa the-end-of-the-day
What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already. Bernie Sanders
thinking blessing bed
I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. Dale Evans
thinking mouths flattery
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth. Dale Carnegie
thinking nuclear weapons
I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon. Colin Powell
doe partners evolve
He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you. Erykah Badu
doe inspired composer
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Ernest Newman
doe looks knows
firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any Erin Hunter
doe hollywood terrorism
Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells. Faran Tahir
doe wickedness
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness. Ezra Taft Benson
doe resistance vacuums
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature. Evangelista Torricelli
doe geography geography-teachers
Geography does not define you - love does. Eve Ensler
doe foundation logical
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it. Francis Crick
doe wells knows
He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to. Francis Chan