Nhat Hanh Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mother, Love Is

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.46, The Golden Sufi Center

• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

• It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Baby, Pain

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 22, 2013

• ‎"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment."-

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Mother, Touching

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

• When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mom, Mother, Husband

• Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Bodhisattva

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Dying, Earth

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

• Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Children, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Environment

• Mother Earth is very talented.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Talent

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Sweet, Home

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.14, Sounds True

• We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Moving, Fall

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