Nhat Hanh Quotes about Anger

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This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

Nhat Hanh

Running, Anger, Practice

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Nhat Hanh

Happiness, Letting Go, Anger

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

Nhat Hanh

Running, Regret, Anger

Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.9, Sounds True

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

Nhat Hanh

Kindness, Fear, Anger

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

Nhat Hanh

Fear, Anger, Mean

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

Nhat Hanh

Anger, Suffering, Trying

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

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.

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Anger, Years, May

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

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

Nhat Hanh

Fear, Anger, Future

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat”, p.8, Parallax Press

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Nhat Hanh

Regret, Anger, Thinking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

Nhat Hanh

Buddhist, Anger, Fighting

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

Nhat Hanh

Anger, Self, Energy

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

Nhat Hanh

Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation