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Thich Nhat Hanh
“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Thich Nhat Hanh
“The more happiness and love that can be reborn the better, because it will make this world more beautiful and kind. Therefore you and I should be living our weeks, days and hours in order to be reborn constantly as happiness, love and kindness.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Thich Nhat Hanh
“As long as fear is in us, happiness cannot be perfect.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Thich Nhat Hanh
“The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Thich Nhat Hanh
“When we are angry, what do we usually do? We shout, scream, and try to blame someone else for our problems. But looking at anger with the eyes of impermanence, we can stop and breathe. Angry at each other in the ultimate dimension, we close our eyes and look deeply. We try to see three hundred years into the future. What will you be like? What will I be like? Where will you be? Where will I be? We need only to breathe in and out, look at our future and at the other person's future.

Looking at the future, we see that the other person is very precious to us. When we know we can lose them at any moment, we are no longer angry. We want to embrace her or him and say: "How wonderful, you are still alive. I am so happy. How could I be angry with you? Both of us have to die someday, and while we are still alive and together it is foolish to be angry at each other."

The reason we are foolish enough to make ourselves suffer and make the other person suffer is that we forget that we and the other person are impermanent. Someday when we die we will lose all our possessions, our power, our family, everything. Our freedom, peace, and joy in the present moment is the most important thing we have.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

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