„Without suffering, there’s no happinesses. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness“ Thích Nhât Hanh - No Mud, No Lotus 🪷

Not every ending needs thunder.
Not every change needs echo.
Some truths unfold in hush
like morning light returning to the trees.

thank you so much 🩶

she makes sure that I don’t! She’s an absolute menace to society. A shark in disguise. 🦈

(2/2) that's one hell of a to-do list. And still, somehow, you keep going. You keep showing up. You keep growing.
That’s not weakness. That’s resilience. That’s strength. That’s courage.
#growth #trauma #resilience #mentalhealth #therapy

(3/3) We think we need to struggle now so that we will be happy in the future. So we postpone happiness and try to run into the future and attain the conditions of happiness that we don’t have now.“
#thichnhathanh #NoMudNoLotus #consciousawareness #trueaspiration #buddhism

„Many of us slog through life without conscious awareness or intention. We set ourselves a course and we barrel ahead, without stopping to ask whether this path is fulfilling our most important goals. That’s partly because many of us believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now.(2/3)

(2/2) The suffering of each of us affects others. The more we learn about the art of suffering well, the less suffering there will be in the world." (No Mud, No Lotus)
#thichnhathanh #buddhism #engagedbuddhism #zen