The spiritual advisor for my school board sent us the following quote and I thought I would share:
“We ‘inter-are,’ everyone is responsible for everything that happens in life. When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world. To smile is not only to smile for yourself; the world will change because of your smile. When you practice sitting meditation, if you enjoy even one moment of your sitting, if you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid basis for peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it? To sit, to smile, to look at things and really see them, these are the basis of peace work.” (Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk, author, and philosopher)
I totally agree with this statement 100 percent and have seen the spirits of people around me lifted when I was happy and peaceful!!
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