Nhat Hanh Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Opportunity, Realizing

• Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

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  Mean, Bridges, Mind

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Feb 29, 2016

• In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

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  Practice, Water, Negative

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.75, Penguin

• Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Home

• The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

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  Lying, Quality, Consciousness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

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  Rising Up, Focus, Storm

• Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

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  Motivational, Thinking, Mind

• When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

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  Sweet, Heart, People

• Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

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  Lying, Garden, Practice

• Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.

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  Parent, Generations, Looks

• The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

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  Healing, Heart, Hatred

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