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Needs Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It…
- 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…
- Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
- There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs…
- Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that…
- Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a…
- 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…
- We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will…
- We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.
- We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are…
- We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.
- 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…
- Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we…
- We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If…
- In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
- One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.
- In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
- We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want…
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