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Smiling means that we are ourselves, that we have sovereignty over ourselves, that we are not drowned in forgetfulness. This kind of smile can be seen on the faces of Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

— Thích Nhất Hạnh Being Peace (1987)

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Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.

You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.

Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving.

Being Peace (2005)

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

Talk at Stonehill College (2002)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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