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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 21

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I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Inspiring, Order, Joy

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions”, p.87, Parallax Press

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

Inspiration, Offering, Practice

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives”, p.14, Harper Collins

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Inspirational, Life, Change

"How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.

Karma, Rain, Sky

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

Practice, Meditation, Listening

Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2006). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.

Animal, Plant, Minerals

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

Baby, Jesus, Giving

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

The war is in our souls.

War, Soul

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

Inspiring, Freedom, Blue

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.46, Penguin

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Smile, Peace, Able

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

Satanic, World, Personal Growth

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.2, Penguin

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Joy, Wonderful, Moments

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

Smile, Peace, Giving

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

Determination, Mean, Meat Industry

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

Inspirational, Mother, Love Is

Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.46, The Golden Sufi Center

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Long, Important, Complaining

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

War, Light, Together We Can

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Inspirational, Alive, Way

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Being Peace”, p.50, Parallax Press

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

War, Practice, Breathing

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Worry, Anxiety, Growth

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

Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life.

Motivational, Giving Up, Journey

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Struggle, Keys, Practice

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

Tea, Teeth, Mindfulness

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

Thinking, Mindfulness, Wells

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Perception, Listening, Helping

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