Nhat Hanh Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• 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

• With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Garden, Understanding

• 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

• In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Past, Garden

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Garden, Practice

• Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

  Nhat Hanh

  Garden, Past, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions”, p.51, Penguin

• While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Drinking, Writing, Garden

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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