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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 22

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Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

Life, Determination, Joy

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.13, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

Needs, World, Should

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

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

Happiness, World, Steps

Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Television, Sovereignty, Humans

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Breathing, Understanding, Development

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive!”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible.

Running, Order, Practice

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Healing, Coaching, Listening

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

Drinking, Writing, Garden

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

Nature, Rain, Ocean

It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

Mother, Baby, Pain

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 22, 2013

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Believe, Levels, Christianity

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

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

Peace, Flower, Heart

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.9, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Every moment is a moment of happiness.

Moments, Moments Of Happiness

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

Meaningful, Intelligent, Empowering

When we are present, life is also present.

Motivational, Life Is, Present Life

If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

Buddhist, Block, Mean

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

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

Breathing, May, Return

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.

Believe, People, Suffering

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

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Real, Teaching, Ignorance

"The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

Inspirational, Motivational, Care

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Compassion, True Power, Understanding

"Thich Nhat Hanh on The Right Kind of Power". The Plum Village Interview, plumvillage.org. July 28, 2008.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

Matter, Individual

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat”, p.227, Parallax Press

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

People, Being There, Moments

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Suffering, Firsts, Fame

"In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You". Interview with John Malkin, www.lionsroar.com. July 1, 2003.

Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

Energy, Way, Steps

Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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