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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 29

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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Inspirational, Life, Change

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

Practice, Healthy, Mind

Thich Nhat Hanh (2014). “How to Eat”, p.38, Parallax Press

There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

Happiness, Country, Real

Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.76, Penguin

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

Army, Practice, People

Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.65, Parallax Press

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Reality, Belief, Notion

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.135, Penguin

The miracle is to walk on the earth.

Miracle, Earth, Walks

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

Firsts, Electrons, Concepts

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

Rain, Clouds, Cry

Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.47, Penguin

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

Teaching, Moon, Names

In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma, the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that lives in harmony and awareness. The three are interrelated, and at times it is hard to distinguish one from another. In everyone there is the capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love. So in ourselves we find Buddha, and we also find Dharma and Sangha.

Buddhism, Community, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

Children, Book, Teaching

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

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Buddhist, Communication, Buddhism

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

Beauty, Beautiful, Moments

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

Country, Religious, Enemy

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Giving, Elements, Contemplating

"Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

Alive, Earth, Wonderful

Talk at Stonehill College, Massachusetts, 2002.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Inspirational, Life, Change

"Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

Heart, Practice, Listening

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.

Mind, Desire, Beginners

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

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

Monk, Ifs

"Thich Nhat Hanh | Interview by Oprah Winfrey, courtesy of Super Soul Sunday". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.awaken.com. August 29, 2013.

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

Buddhist, People, Parent

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

There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.

Real, Self, Separation

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.

Thinking, Rights, Self

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

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