Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 5

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• I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

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  Children, Order, Practice

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• We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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• Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

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  Life, Opportunity, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

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  Happiness, Heart, Positivity

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.77, Penguin

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• When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

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  Enemy, Suffering, Insight

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• Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

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  Relationship, Real, Love Is

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

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  Thinking, Self, Different

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

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  Buddhism, Acceptance, Deep Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.4, Parallax Press

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

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• Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Down And

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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 capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

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  Forgiveness, Spiritual, World

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

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• People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.

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  Cutting, Reality, Break Through

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.90, Buddhist Publication Society

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• If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.

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  Heart, Love Is, Miracle

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.69, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

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  Sleep, Cutting, Practice

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• Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

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  Home, Mean, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.45, Penguin

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• A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

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  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

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• To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

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  Home, Mean, Care

  ""This Is The Buddha's Love" Melvin McLeod interviews Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

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  Breathe, Monk, Activist

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• The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

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  Inspiring, Water, Lovely

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

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• People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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• Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

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  Kindness, Fear, Anger

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• In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

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  Reality, Meditation, Encounters

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.154, Parallax Press

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• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

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  Letting Go, Joy, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

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