Nhat Hanh Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beauty, Beach, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.5, Parallax Press

• There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Self, Different

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.13, Penguin

• Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Mind, Birth

• Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Clouds, Looks, Impossible

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.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

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Compassion, Order

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

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