Nhat Hanh Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Karma, War, Ignorance

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.75, Parallax Press

• Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ignorance, Fighting, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.130, Penguin

• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Ignorance, Experience

• Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ignorance, Thinking, Desire

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

• The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ignorance, Order, Perception

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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