Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 16

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• Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

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  Art, Buddhist, School

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

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• No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

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  Order, Giving, Diversity

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• Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

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  Compassion, Order, People

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• 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.

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  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

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• 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.

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  Ignorance, Thinking, Desire

  "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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• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

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  Forgiveness, Peace, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.36, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

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  Becoming

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• 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.

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  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.

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• To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

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  Compassion, Enemy, Impossible

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• But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

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  Kindness, Compassion, People

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• If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

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  Finding Yourself, Steps, Awareness

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Neumann (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Speech

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

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  Transformation, Moments, Can Do

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• Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.

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  Baby, Thinking, Doctors

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• When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.

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  Peace, Nature, Reality

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1997). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Understanding

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

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• If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

  "This Is the Buddha’s Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

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  Spring, Healing, Museums

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

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  Happiness, Giving, Serenity

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

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• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

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  Beauty, Beach, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.5, Random House

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• Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

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  Happiness, Smell, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.22, Random House

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• No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

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  Real, Wine, Glasses

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• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

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  Gratitude, Health, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.90, Parallax Press

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• The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

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  Teaching, Compassion, Joy

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