Nhat Hanh Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

  Nhat Hanh

  Enemy, Suffering, Insight

• Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ignorance, Fighting, Compassion

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

• When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Enemy, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.78, Penguin

• To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Enemy, Impossible

• In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Real, War

• When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Religious, Enemy

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