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#1

“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza鈥檚? Was his brain equal to Kepler鈥檚 or Newton鈥檚? Was he grander in death 鈥� a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, About The Holy Bible

tags: atheism, baruch-spinoza, bruno, buddha, buddhism, cicero, epictetus, epicurus, gautama-buddha, giordano-bruno, isaac-newton, johannes-kepler, kepler, kindness, laozi, newton, patience, shakespeare, socrates, spinoza, stoicism, william-shakespeare, wisdom, zeno, zeno-of-citium, zoroaster

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#2

“Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#3

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#4

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#5

“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

tags: philosophy

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#6

“My actions are my only true belongings.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

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#7

“Our own life has to be our message.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh , The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

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#8

“If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power: A Zen Master's Guide to Redefining Power, Achieving True Freedom and Discovering Lasting Happiness in a Stressful World

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#9

“The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

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#10

“It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

tags: creationism, god, inspirational

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#11

“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

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#12

“The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#13

“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

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#14

“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#15

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child鈥攐ur own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

tags: mindfulness, miracles

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#16

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: humility

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#17

“One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

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#18

“Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose.”
― Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

tags: chief, inspirational, lake, native-american, relevant, smart, wisdom

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#19

“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors.”
― Lori Goodwin

tags: ptsd, soldier, survivor, war, warrior

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#20

“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit鈥攖o do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had grown with me through my teens, my twenties, my thirties, an unacknowledged mentor directing my every path, reinforcing a ubiquitous sense of powerlessness and victimhood. I had believed that I was bad, and unloveable, and cowardly, and weak鈥攂eliefs that had been unconscious, and had always gone unchallenged. I believed them because they were true, and they were true because I believed them.”
― Carolyn Spring

tags: abuse-survivors, belief-system, effects-of-child-abuse, helplessness, negative-thinking, negative-thoughts, powerlessness, unhelpful-thoughts, victim-mentality, victim-role, victimhood

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#21

“I am hyper alert to people turning away from me. I have a perennial sense of being an outsider.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

tags: distrustful, distrusting-others, fear-of-rejection, hypersensitive-people, hypervigilance, not-fitting-in, on-edge, outsider, ptsd

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#22

“if your brain changes in response to experience, then you have the opportunity to deliberately help your brain change again based on new experiences you create.”
― Michele Rosenthal

tags: brain, complex-ptsd, healing-insights, healing-the-past, mental-health, mental-illness, neuropsychology, ptsd

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#23

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a renewed faith in the universe. The therapist's job is not just to be a witness to this process but to teach the patient how.”
― Janina Fisher

tags: abuse-survivors, complex-ptsd, dissociative-identity-disorder, healing-abuse, healing-from-abuse, ptsd, safety, therapy, treatment

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#24

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#25

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: denial, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, psychotherapy, ptsd, taboo, trauma, truth

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#26

“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: fear, trauma

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#27

“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: death, guilt, killers, life, trauma

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#28

“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

tags: community, healing, isolation, ptsd, shamanism, support, trauma

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#29

“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and friends want is to talk about it. I call this the war veteran reintegration paradox.”
― M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

tags: combat-ptsd, desert, iraq-war, ptsd, trauma, war, warrior

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#30

“Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.”
― Tom Glenn

tags: aids, an-nam, combat, combat-ptsd, saigon, vc, viet-cong, vietnam-war

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