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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 16

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Forgiveness, Peace, Practice

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.36, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

Finding Yourself, Steps, Awareness

Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Neumann (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

Helping Others, People, Can Not

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.

Baby, Thinking, Doctors

Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Feet, Focus, Next Steps

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

Happiness, Smell, Looks

Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.22, Random House

Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.

Mother, Children, Sunshine

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

Compassion, Enemy, Impossible

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Inspirational, Life, Change

"Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

Teaching, Compassion, Joy

To live in the present moment is a miracle.

Miracle, Moments, Live In The Present

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering

Flower, Two, Summertime

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.

Attitude, Reality, Thinking

"The Miracle of Mindfulness". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1999.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Transformation, Moments, Can Do

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Wisdom, Mean, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

Real, Wine, Glasses

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Inspirational, Life, Change

Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.5, Random House

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Gratitude, Health, Clouds

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.90, Parallax Press

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

Love, Relationship, Buddhist

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

Moving, Compassion, World

The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

Peace, Stars, Truth

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

Children, Compassion, Irritation

Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

Healing, Our World, Important

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

Flower, Heart, Reality

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

Buddhist, Animal, Thinking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.82, Parallax Press

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