People Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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

— Nhat Hanh

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

— Nhat Hanh

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

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To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

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To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the…

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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…

— Nhat Hanh

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

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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of…

— Nhat Hanh

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you…

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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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That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life -…

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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…

— Nhat Hanh

As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the…

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Nhat Hanh

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There…

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Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They…

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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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Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them.…

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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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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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We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we…

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A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have…

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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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There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those…

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There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

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We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion…

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In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining…

— Nhat Hanh

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order…

— Nhat Hanh

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all…

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But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our…

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Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we…

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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small…

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We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of…

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When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep…

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Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of…

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One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he…

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There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to…

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Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute…

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The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame…

— Nhat Hanh