If you have a breathing room, you have a sanctuary, a place where you can return to yourself and restore your sense of peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit - the pleasure of simply being.

The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

When we let our focus shift away from the people and things around us, we are better able to engage in what's called meta-cognition, or the process of thinking critically and reflectively about our own thoughts.

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