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Suffering Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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Thich Nhat Hanh likens suffering to a crying baby that needs gentle care, urging us to hold it tenderly. He says happiness appears when anger, discrimination, and ego fade, and that mindfulness in eating and living reduces pain. He also reminds us that even wealth cannot protect us from deep suffering.

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Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

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You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

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If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

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Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

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Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

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Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

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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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The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already…

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By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

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Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

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To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering…

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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

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The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still…

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If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we…

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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease…

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Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living…

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If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war,…

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People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is…

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When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is…

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Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and…

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When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him…

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If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow.…

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Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look…

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As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that…

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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is…

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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to…

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Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the…

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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put…

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Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in…

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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.…

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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

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I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others…

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

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Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice…

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The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and…

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If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you…

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It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud…

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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs…

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