Top 100 Quotes About Hanh
#1. You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me."
Sandra Cisneros
#2. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
Robert Thurman
#3. Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. - THICH NHAT HANH
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#4. I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
Will McIntosh
#5. Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?
Sandra Cisneros
#7. Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.
Deepak Chopra
#8. I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me.
Sandra Cisneros
#9. Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.
Joanna Macy
#10. Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#11. Five simple practices offered by Thich Nhat Hanh: Make time for love. Be there for the one you love. Recognize the presence of the other. Reach out to your loved one when they are suffering. Let go of your pride.
David Mezzapelle
#12. One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Sandra Cisneros
#13. When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
Tara Brach
#15. One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.
Sandra Cisneros
#16. The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.
Sylvia Boorstein
#17. Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
Garry Shandling
#18. I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.
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#19. Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.
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#20. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels ... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.
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#21. Failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish them can you really be free and no longer assailed by them.
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#22. If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
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#23. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.
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#24. An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.
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#26. I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.
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#27. Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"
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#28. Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
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#29. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
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#30. Soldiers fear the frontier post, monks fear the Surangama Dharani!
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#31. Mindfulness isn't something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we're on the telephone, driving the car, or washing the dishes.
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#32. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.
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#33. We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.
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#35. When you prepare a meal with artful awareness, it's delicious and healthy. You have put your mindfulness, love, and care into the meal, then people will be eating your love.
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#36. Hell is a matter of everyday life, like the Kingdom of God. The choice is yours.
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#37. If monks and nuns do not cherish their time of practice, they will have nothing to offer the world.
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#38. When you sit alone quietly, it's something beautiful, even if nobody sees it.
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#39. 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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#40. Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.
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#41. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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#42. The difficult truth is that the basic law of thermodynamics still holds: When we eat more calories than we expend, we gain weight. When we burn more energy through physical activity or exercise than we take in from food and drinks, we lose weight.
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#43. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.
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#44. The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
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#45. A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.
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#46. The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.
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#47. Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.
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#48. Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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#49. Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.
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#50. There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.
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#51. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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#52. 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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#53. If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.
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#54. He whispered in the king's ear, "If you ask me, I think you should find a wife for Siddhartha. Once he has a family to occupy him, he will abandon this desire to become a monk." King Suddhodana nodded.
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#55. Everyone is breathing, but not everyone is aware that they're breathing.
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#56. Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness. SUFFERING
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#57. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
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#58. We need to stop and ask, "Can I realize my deepest aspiration if I pursue this path?" "What is really preventing me from taking the path I most deeply desire?" DEVELOPING
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#59. If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
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#60. We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.
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#61. Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.
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#62. When Jesus said, "I am the way," He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.
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#63. Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
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#64. Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.
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#65. 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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#66. When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.
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#67. 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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#68. When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.
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#69. He who judges a situation impulsively is not righteous.
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#70. Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.
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#71. Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.
Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment.
Breathing out, I smile.
Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day.
Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.
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#72. When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy.
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#73. The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.
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#74. As long as fear is in us, happiness cannot be perfect.
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#75. Our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
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#76. In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.
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#77. So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
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#78. Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.
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#79. Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teachers.
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#80. Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The
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#81. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.
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#82. 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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#83. You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.
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#84. Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.
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#85. Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
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#86. When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
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#87. For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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#88. If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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#89. I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.
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#90. If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future.
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#91. May we awaken from the dream that we are different.
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#92. We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by
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#93. When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.
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#94. Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.
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#95. While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes.
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#96. Many people think excitement is happiness ... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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#97. Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.
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#98. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
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#99. Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.
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#100. The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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