“Only the present moment contains life.”
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
― Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh
― Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh
“Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.”
― Back to Grace
― Back to Grace
“What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?”
― How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
― How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
“What might we aspire to instead, if not more possessions? ‘Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,’ argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. ‘Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.’72 When it comes to consumerism, perhaps the poverty that we aim to conceal lies in our neglected relationships”
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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