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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 23

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When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and

When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

Motivational, Running, Yoga

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

Suffering, Looks, Path

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Climbing, Mountain, Vain

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

Running, Time, War

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.24, Harmony

Just listen Be peace.

Just Listen

We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and toward peace and compassion, or in the direction of affliction and misery. What is it that we really want deep in our heart? Is it money, fame, power? Or is it finding inner peace, being able to live life fully and enjoy the present moment?

Motivational, Live Life, Heart

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Flower, Garden, Understanding

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Peace, People, Use

Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.112, Parallax Press

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

Love, Ignorance, Experience

May we awaken from the dream that we are different.

Dream, Different, May

At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

Stress, Silly, Simple

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

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

Kindness, Loneliness, Communication

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.95, Harmony

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Happiness, Real, Inner Peace

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

Past, Moments, Better Future

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

People, Abandon, Contemplating

Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.98, Beacon Press

Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

Motivational, Running, Believe

In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

Motivational, Thinking, Phones

The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is. We need to wake up in order to rediscover our human sovereignty. We are riding a horse that is running out of control. The way of salvation is a new culture in which human beings are encouraged to rediscover their deepest nature.

Running, Horse, Order

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

Children, World, Fireworks

Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.88, Penguin

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Motivational, Regret, Past

Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Grateful, Way, Soil

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

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

Sweet, Heart, People

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

Rain, Clouds, Tree

Thich Nhat Hanh (2017). “The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries”, p.21, Parallax Press

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Buddhist, Opportunity, Offering

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

Peace, Spring, Rain

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