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Able Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- 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…
- Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the…
- To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have…
- If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
- The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us.…
- We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it…
- To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do…
- When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who…
- Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is…
- Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to…
- A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less.…
- Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may…
- We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and…
- Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for…
- Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind…
- Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with…
- Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then I will be…
- If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care…
- We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the…
- In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands…
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