Nhat Hanh Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

• 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

• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

  Nhat Hanh

  Attitude, Flower, Understanding

  "Being Peace in a World of Trauma". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 4, 2007.

• 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

• 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

• Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Flower, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Respect, Nature

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

• With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Worry, Positive Energy

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

• You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.154, Parallax Press

• The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Thinking, Looks

• If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Peaceful, Benefits

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Flower, Healing

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

• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Summer, Flower

• When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Flower, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, p.11, Random House

• 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

• Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Flower, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Mar 30, 2016

• If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Two, Summertime

• With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Garden, Understanding

• Walk and touch peace every moment.
  Walk and touch happiness every moment.
  Each step brings a fresh breeze.
  Each step makes a flower bloom.
  Kiss the Earth with your feet.
  Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
  The Earth will be safe
  when we feel safe in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Peace, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.87, Parallax Press

• You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Buddhist, Flower

• Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Flower, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.9, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

• Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Reality

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