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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 14

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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Life, Happiness, Success

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Mistake, Thinking, Creating

"This Is the Buddha’s Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. March 1, 2006.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

Art, Buddhist, School

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.58, Parallax Press

The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

Joy, Tea, Cups

Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

Happiness, Healing, Heart

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

Home, Practice, Water

Thich Nhat Hanh (1999). “Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966”, p.69, Penguin

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Breathing, Knows

Twitter post from Feb 16, 2009

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Nature, Air, Water

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

Baby, Jesus, Buddhist

Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Understanding, Listening, Suffering

Your true home is in the here and the now.

Home, True Home, Interbeing

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing”, p.52, Parallax Press

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Heart, Compassion

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Heart, Empathy, Listening

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Men, May, Said

Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.56, Penguin

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love, Buddhist, Thinking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Random House

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Reality, Facts, Action

Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

Becoming

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.

Ignorance, Thinking, Desire

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Discovery, Joy, Moments

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Moments of Mindfulness: Daily Inspiration”, p.49, Parallax Press

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Kindness, Compassion, Speech

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Teaching, Mind, Trying

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

Compassion, Order, People

'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

Mean, Self, Scare

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.421, Parallax Press

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Love, Mean, Order

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.171, Harmony

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