Nhat Hanh Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

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  Inspiring, Horse, Lovely

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.98, Penguin

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

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  Peaceful, Cooperation, Illusion

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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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• What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

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  Seeking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

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  Life, Buddhist, Morning

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 18, 2015

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• A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

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  Flower, Sunshine, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.129, Harmony

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• For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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  Views, Needs, Abandon

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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• The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

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  Happiness, Trust, Confidence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

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  Ignorance, Fighting, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.130, Penguin

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• You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

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  Happiness, Yoga, Land

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• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

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  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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