Nhat Hanh Quotes

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• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

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  Light, Air, Space

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

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  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
  Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.
  Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment.
  Breathing out, I smile.
  Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day.
  Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.

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  Grateful, Breathing, I Smile

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

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  Laughter, Struggle, Flower

  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.3, Shambhala Publications

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• You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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  Uplifting, Thinking, Suffering

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• No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Worthy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

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  Running, Practice, Stopping

  "Stop Running, Start Being". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

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• Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

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  Healing, Wonderful, Refreshing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

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  Hurt, Loving Yourself, Moments

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• Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

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

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• Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

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  Life, Running, Being Yourself

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.153, Harmony

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• We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

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  Peaceful, Cooperation, Illusion

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• When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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  Letting Go, Heal Itself, Giving

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

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• You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.

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  Yoga, Light, Different

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• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

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  Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

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  Moving, Past, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very 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. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

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  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• Only the present moment contains life.

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  Mindfulness, Moments, Peace Is Every Step

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

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  Looks, Action

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1997). “Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training”, p.136, Parallax Press

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

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  Relief, Matter, Able

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• When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

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  Peace, Buddhist, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

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• If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

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  Happiness, Running, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.11, Sounds True

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

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  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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