Nhat Hanh Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.

  Nhat Hanh

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.2, Penguin

• Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Roots, Violence

• If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Compassion, Irritation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Hatred, Violence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Perception, Foundation

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

• To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Views, Suffering, Foundation

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

• The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Heart, Hatred

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