Nhat Hanh Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Eye

• It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

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  Love, Twenties, Movement

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Sep 26, 2014

• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

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  Love, Relationship, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

• We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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  Love, Buddhist, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Random House

• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

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  Love, Buddhist, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

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  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen (1992). “The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra”, Parallax Pr

• The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Mean

• If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Random House

• True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

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  Love, Joy, Doe

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

• 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.

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  Love, Summer, Flower

• 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.

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  Love, Peace, Flower

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

• You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

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  Love, Yoga, Can Not

• In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

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  Love, Mean, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.171, Harmony

• Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

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  Love, Ignorance, Experience

• If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

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  Love, Giving, Car

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.65, Harmony

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