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Our Own Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
- In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right…
- We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But…
- When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we…
- When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into…
- 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…
- Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do…
- Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
- People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water…
- Our own life has to be our message.
- A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of…
- Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and…
- When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs…
- If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time…
- Even though we are primarily responsible for our own anger, we believe naively that if we can say something or do something to punish the…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann