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Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 9

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If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

Running, War, Appreciate

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

People, Foundation, Care

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Suffering, Impermanence, Permanent

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.132, Harmony

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

Real, Drinking, Coffee

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.45, Penguin

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

Instruments, Experiments

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

Worry, Dandelions, My Smile

If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

Love, Giving, Car

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.65, Harmony

We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

Sleep, Cutting, Practice

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Peace, Heart, Sick

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.154, Harmony

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way”, p.8, Parallax Press

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Peace, Truth, Reality

Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.52, Beacon Press

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Inspirational, Life, Change

"Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Home, Mean, Meditation

Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.45, Penguin

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Meditation, Feelings, Mind

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.136, ReadHowYouWant.com

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

Anger, Years, May

Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions”, p.11, Penguin

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

Healing, Water, Enlightenment

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Penguin

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Substance, Care, Way

Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

Mistake, Night, Attachment

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts.

Offering, New Day, Twenties

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Apr 17, 2012

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.

Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God, Available

What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.

Peace, Important, Steps

Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.5, Parallax Press

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Appreciate, When You Love Someone, Suffering

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

Sensual, Dying, Energy

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Spring, Flower, Learning

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Joy, Enlightenment, Energy

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