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Nhat Hanh Quotes about Compassion - Page 2

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If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

Children, Compassion, Irritation

Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

Beauty, Compassion, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Compassion, Dwelling, Trying

Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.67, Souvenir Press

Compassion is a verb.

Sympathy, Wisdom, Compassion

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

Healing, Compassion, And Love

Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Compassion, True Power, Understanding

"Thich Nhat Hanh on The Right Kind of Power". The Plum Village Interview, plumvillage.org. July 28, 2008.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Compassion, Understanding, Poverty

All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

Compassion, Hatred, Violence

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Compassion, Practice, Understanding

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Compassion, Understanding, Energy

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

To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

Compassion, Order, Voice

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

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.

Compassion, Helping, Chance

"Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1993.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Kindness, Compassion, Understanding

"Sunday Interview - Stop Running, Start Being / In 1966, Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was forced from his homeland, but in all his years of exile, he has not wavered from his pursuit of inner and global peace". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Compassion, Mind, Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.66, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. . . . The technological has to work hand-in-hand with the spiritual. Our spiritual life is the element that can bring about the energies of peace, calm, brotherhood, understanding, and compassion. Without that, our planet doesn't stand a chance.

Spiritual, Technology, Compassion

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

Heart, Compassion, Order

Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.72, Parallax Press

We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.

I Love Him, Compassion, Mind

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