Top 100 Nhat Hanh Quotes

#1. I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

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#2. If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

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#3. Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

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#4. Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

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#5. Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

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

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#7. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

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#8. May we awaken from the dream that we are different.

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#9. The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

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#10. We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

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#11. By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

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#12. To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

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#13. Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

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#14. Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.

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#15. The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

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#16. Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

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#17. When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.

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#18. The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

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#19. The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

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#20. Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

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#21. Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

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#22. We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.

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#23. When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.

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#24. You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

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#25. You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

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#26. 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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#27. Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

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#28. A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

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#29. "I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

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#30. When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family.

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#31. The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

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#32. 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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#33. Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

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#34. We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

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#35. We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

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#36. Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

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#37. 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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#38. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

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#39. Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

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#40. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

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#41. In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

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#42. I think, therefore I am ... not here.

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#43. When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.

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#44. Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

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#45. Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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#46. Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

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#47. Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

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#48. When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

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#49. The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

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#50. When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

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#51. Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

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#52. Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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#53. Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

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#54. The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

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#55. Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

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#56. Go slowly, breathe and smile.

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#57. In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

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#58. We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

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#59. Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

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#60. The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

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#61. Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

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#62. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

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#63. I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

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#64. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

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#65. You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

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#66. Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

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#67. When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

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#68. The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

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#69. Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

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#70. You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

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#71. Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

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#72. When we are present, life is also present.

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#73. 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.

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#74. Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family ... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.

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#75. 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.

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#76. When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

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#77. Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

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#78. Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

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#79. If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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#80. Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

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#81. Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

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#82. With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

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#83. When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

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#84. Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

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#85. By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

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#86. The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

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#87. Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.

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#88. Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

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#89. Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

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#90. Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

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#91. Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

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#92. Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

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#93. Smile, breathe, go slowly.

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#94. Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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#95. We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

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#96. Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

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#97. In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

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#98. Be part of the miraculous moment.

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#99. We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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#100. You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

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