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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 7

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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

Inspirational, Teacher, Wake Up

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children”, p.15, Parallax Press

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.

Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Two Treasures: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening and True Happiness”, p.22, Parallax Press

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

Beautiful, Yoga, Air

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

Future, Care, Moments

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.10, Harper Collins

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

Breathing, Two, Focus

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice”, p.25, Parallax Press

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

Healing, Miracle, Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.14, Beacon Press

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Love Is, Care, Capacity

"This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Rising Up, Focus, Storm

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

Understanding, Mind, Helping

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

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

God, Real, Inner Peace

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Here And Now, Appointments

Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

Children, Order, Practice

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

Life, Breathing, Meditation

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Yoga, Missing, Moments

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Joy, Ultimate, Fearlessness

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.4, Harper Collins

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.

Order, Practice, Heaven

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

Teacher, Teaching, Heart

Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

Inspiring, Water, Lovely

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

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

Spiritual, Drinking, Thinking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Beautiful, Peace, Flower

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Moments, Found, Peace Is Every Step

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

Love, Buddhist, Mean

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Love, Joy, Doe

Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Mom, Jobs, Hard Work

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

Heart, Compassion, Mind

Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.58, Beacon Press

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