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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 19

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Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Peace, War, Work

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

Peace, Struggle, Essence

Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

Clouds, Looks, Impossible

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

Compassion is a verb.

Sympathy, Wisdom, Compassion

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

Meditation, Preparation

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

Looks, Elements, Poverty

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

People, Suffering, Doe

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.22, Penguin

And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us.

Spiritual, Heart, Joy

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Shine On, Shining, Live In The Moment

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Time, Appreciate, Water

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

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.

Happiness, Breathing, Inner Peace

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

Sunshine, Practice, Sky

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

Go slowly, breathe and smile.

Smile, Breathe

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Running, Buddhism, Order

Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Running, Roots, Energy

"Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

Mean, Thinking, People

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Spiritual, Mean, Peaceful

Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

Kings, Leader, Waiting

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Perspective, Enlightenment, Mindfulness

Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.4, Souvenir Press

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Enlightenment, Needs, Earth

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.

Care, Way, God Love

Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1997). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

Here And Now, Peace And Serenity, Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

Wake Up, Waking, Bed

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

Taken, Healing, Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Love Letter to the Earth”, p.52, Parallax Press

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

Inspirational, Success, Doors

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Cultivating the Mind of Love”, p.2, Parallax Press

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