Nhat Hanh Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Empathy, Listening

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

• You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Communication, Order, Practice

• The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tired, Vacation, Purpose

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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