Looks Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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

— Nhat Hanh

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

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

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Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

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To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

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Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself…

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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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To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto…

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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.…

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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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The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply…

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If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of…

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Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to…

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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you…

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Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we…

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Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into…

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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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We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept…

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We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation…

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In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have…

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A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which…

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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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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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It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of…

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The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of…

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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not…

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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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

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We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could…

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We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we…

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We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and…

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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in…

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