Top 100 Thich Nhat Quotes
#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. I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I'm paraphrasing), he's talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you're not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.
Moby
#14. My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.
Deepak Chopra
#15. When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
Tara Brach
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#27. 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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#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. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.
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#44. Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.
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#45. Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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#46. Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.
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#47. 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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#48. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. Everyone is breathing, but not everyone is aware that they're breathing.
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#53. Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness. SUFFERING
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#54. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
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#55. 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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#56. Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.
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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. He who judges a situation impulsively is not righteous.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. As long as fear is in us, happiness cannot be perfect.
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#63. Our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
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#64. 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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#65. Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.
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#66. Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teachers.
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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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#70. If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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#71. If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.
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#79. Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.
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#80. While they could appreciate the artistry of the dancers and musicians, they were not carried away by the pleasures they offered. They had their own dreams - to find answers concerning the spiritual quest and the renewal of society.
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#81. The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.
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#82. We ought to listen to music or sit and practice breathing at the beginning of every meeting or discussion.
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#83. There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.
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#84. The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
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#85. We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God.
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#86. The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates the stains of his mind.
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#87. I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.
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#88. Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
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#89. You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.
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#90. Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.
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#91. We have created a culture of constant snacking, drinking, and eating.
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#92. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus,
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#93. The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
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#94. The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.
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#95. Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful ... How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural
you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.
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#96. If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.
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#98. In the past, we probably did suffer from one thing or another. It may even have felt like a kind of hell. If we remember that suffering, not letting ourselves get carried away by it, we can use it to remind ourselves, "How lucky I am right now. I'm not in that situation. I can be happy.
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#99. A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.
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#100. When you have a toothache, you call your dentist and ask for an emergency appointment to relieve your pain. You know deeply at that point that not having a toothache is happiness. Yet later, when you don't have a toothache, you forget and do not treasure your non-toothache.
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