Suffering Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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

— Nhat Hanh

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

— Nhat Hanh

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

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

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

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Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

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

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

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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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Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into…

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Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is…

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When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of…

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We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,…

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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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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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You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I…

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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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Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then…

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

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

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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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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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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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