Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 9

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• In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

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  Sports, Book, Television

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.99, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

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  Worry, Dandelions, My Smile

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• When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

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  Anger, Suffering, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

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• The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts.

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  Offering, New Day, Twenties

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Apr 17, 2012

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• Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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  People, Listening, Suffering

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• Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

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  Miracle, Enlightenment, Alive

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

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• Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

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  Doe, Consumption

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

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  Men, May, Said

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.56, Penguin

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• Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

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  Kindness, Real, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.58, Parallax Press

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• The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

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  Love Is, Compassion, Names

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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  Change, Business, Sides

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Penguin

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• Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

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  Happiness, Peace, Practice

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• Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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  Mean, Understanding, Throwing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

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  Real, Drinking, Coffee

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.45, Penguin

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• What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

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  Nature, Animal, Sound

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.245, The Golden Sufi Center

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• ‎"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."-

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  Beautiful, Mother, Touching

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

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• If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

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  Running, War, Appreciate

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• Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Moon

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• The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

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  Healing, Our World, Important

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• Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

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  World, Chance, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

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  People, Foundation, Care

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

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  Instruments, Experiments

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

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  Laughter, Flower, Healing

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

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

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  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

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  Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way”, p.8, Parallax Press

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