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Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom.

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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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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