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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 8

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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Positive, Buddhist, Thinking Negative

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Reality, Order, Understanding

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

The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

Flower, Thinking, Looks

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Inspirational, Life, Change

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

Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.

Meditation, Energy, Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

Buddhist, Horse, Mean

Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.20, Beacon Press

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

Happiness, Heart, Compassion

Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.163, Parallax Press

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

Sports, Book, Television

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.99, ReadHowYouWant.com

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Space, Self, Somewhere Else

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

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

People, Listening, Suffering

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

Peace, Responsibility, Thinking

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Miracle, Enlightenment, Alive

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

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Kindness, Real, Mean

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.58, Parallax Press

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Anger, Suffering, Trying

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

Hate, Compassion, Brotherhood

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

Beautiful, Respect, Nature

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

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day...children die of hunger.... Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.

Beautiful, Spiritual, Morning

‎"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment."-

Beautiful, Mother, Touching

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

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

Love Is, Compassion, Names

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Wisdom, Nature, Moon

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Peace, Truth, Yoga

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Change, Business, Sides

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Penguin

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Mean, Understanding, Throwing

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

Happiness, Peace, Practice

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

World, Chance, Moments

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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