
Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

Peace, happiness, and freedom are the delicious fruits of the Beginner’s Mind, and they are also the essential nutriments for the Beginner’s Mind. Thus, if we fail to nourish peace, happiness, and freedom in ourselves daily, our Mind of Love can become eroded. Status, power, stress, frustration, worry, hope, aspiration, expectation, and disappointm
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“Mother, I am walking for you. I know that in your life, you were never able to take a peaceful step.”
Thich Nhat Hanh • Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
Suffering has no beginning and no end. It has no single cause. It has been transmitted to us from our ancestors, from our parents, from our environment, and from the way in which we have lived these past many years. Peace, stability, and freedom also work in the same way. They have no beginning, no end, and no single cause. We can choose the path o
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Yet I feel more peaceful and fulfilled than ever before. It is because I have learned the practice of stopping, of non-wishing and non-seeking.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
“This space is very important. This is the ground, where everything will grow—the flowers, the grass, and the animals. You need to accept that this space exists inside you. Do not run away from it. Sometimes when the suffering is not in balance with the joy, you may feel this space as a vacuum. You may feel lifeless. Be there to embrace it.” Thus,
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I saw for the first time that my mind was actually the main perpetrator of all the havoc in my life.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
These attachments were the sharp blades that caused my bleeding. With each thought and notion that I was able to let go of, I felt freer. Liberation was becoming concrete and experiential moment by moment and day by day. One does not need to be an old guru, a wise person, or a corpse in order to taste liberation.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
had slowly begun to embrace my sadness without siding with it or thinking that it is permanent.