The practice of mindful living should be joyful and pleasant. If you breathe in and out and feel joy and peace, that is Right Diligence. If you suppress yourself, if you suffer during your practice, it probably is not Right Diligence. Examine your practice. See what brings you joy and happiness of a sustained kind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Further quotes from the book The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching :
- Anxiety is the illness of our age
- Being really there
- The Middle Way between existent and nonexistent
- The only condition for happiness
- Truly free
- Fully alive and fully aware
- Allow yourself to be happy now
- Right Speech
- Just be
- Call for help
- Beyond birth and death