Thich Nhat Hanh

True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

f you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering.

The third element of true love is the capacity to offer joy. When you know how to generate joy, it nourishes you and nourishes the other person. Your presence is an offering, like fresh air, or spring flowers, or the bright blue sky.

Dwelling in the present moment,

Sexual expression should not happen without love and

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living.

you should be conscious of what you are reading and watching.

be thoughtful about what you consume

Nothing can survive without food. Everything we consume acts either to heal us or to poison us. We tend to think of nourishment only as what we take in through our mouths, but what we consume with our eyes, our ears, our noses, our tongues, and our bodies is also food. The conversations going on around us, and those we participate in, are also food. Are we consuming and creating the kind of food that is healthy for us and helps us grow?

There are many ways that people can support us and love us without actually saying, “I love you.” You may know people who have never said, “I love you,”

but you know they love you.