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In our daily life we have to remind ourselves to come back to our body and take care of our body. Many of us have not been kind enough to our body. We have worked our body too hard; we have neglected it. When we spend two hours on our computer, we may entirely forget that we have a body. Our body is lonely; there is tension, there is pain. When the mind is not with the body, you are not really there, alive. We are truly alive only when our mind is with our body. And so when we hear the sound of the bell, it reminds us to go back to our body, to recognize the existence of our body, and to take care of our body. We enjoy breathing and bring our mind home to our body, and suddenly we are fully present in the here and now. We release the tension in our body and smile. This is an act of reconciliation, an act of love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Every minute can be a holy, sacred minute. Where do you seek the spiritual? You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there. With mindfulness and concentration, everything becomes spiritual.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, in "How to Eat".

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In our time, in our civilization, sitting and doing nothing is considered either to be a luxury or a waste of time. But sitting can produce the most nourishing calm and joy and we can all afford some time to sit. How wonderful to sit and do nothing.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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