Nhat Hanh Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Determination, Joy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.13, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

  Nhat Hanh

  Shine On, Shining, Live In The Moment

• Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Eye, Reality

  "Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh: An Interview". Interview with Helen Tworkov, tricycle.org. Summer 1995.

• If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Awareness, Ifs

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.123, Parallax Press

• If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.6, Random House

• True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "'This Is The Buddha's Love' Melvin McLeod interviews Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  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

• Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Giving

• When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Practice, Rich

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

• Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Adversity, Love Is, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sacred, Action, Awareness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.17, Parallax Press

• To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.
  To meditate means to observe.
  Your smile proves it.
  It proves that you are being gentle with yourself,
  that the sun of awareness is shining in you,
  that you have control of your situation.
  You are yourself,
  and you have acquired some peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.13, Parallax Press

• Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

  Nhat Hanh

  Opposites, Practice, May

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice”, p.16, Parallax Press

• There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Cells, Practice

• Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Integrity, Flower

• It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food. Awareness of this fact alone can help us overcome many of our own psychological pains. Eventually our contemplation can help us see how to assist those who need our help so much.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Children

• May we awaken from the dream that we are different.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Different, May

• If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Finding Yourself, Steps, Awareness

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Neumann (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Eight, Giving, Effort

• If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

  Nhat Hanh

  Offering, Understanding, Healthy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

  Nhat Hanh

  Caring, Small Acts, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathing, Understanding, Development

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive!”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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