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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 26

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Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Suffering

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

Mother, Moving, Fall

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Healing, Practice, People

"Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh,the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk:The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

Going Away, Ache, Stomach

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Love, Yoga, Can Not

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Order, Practice, Mindfulness

"Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

Suffering, Well Being, Wells

"Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

Life is only available in the present moment.

Life Is, Moments, Available

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Compassion, Practice, Understanding

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

Beloved Community, World, Accomplish

Source: www.oprah.com

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

Art, Integrity, Flower

Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Practice, Joy, Childhood

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

World, Speech, Action

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Buddhist, Heart, Thinking

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Roots, Joy, Mind

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

Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

Mean, Community, Our Community

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

Enlightenment

"Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

Suffering, Despair, Remove

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

Buddhist, Heart, Buddhism

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

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

Heart, Effort, Understanding

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

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Compassion, Understanding, Energy

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

To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

Compassion, Order, Voice

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Mother, Earth, Environment

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Grateful, Heart, Breathing

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

Hate, Because I Can, Starting Anew

Source: plumvillage.org

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