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Very Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if…
- Find joy and peace in this very moment.
- If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words…
- Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think…
- The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of…
- Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
- Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.
- Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.
- When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When…
- Mother Earth is very talented.
- The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If…
- Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or…
- It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop…
- 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…
- Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of…
- Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
- 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…
- Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions…
- Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a…
- Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you…
- If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful…
- Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
- We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of…
- 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…
- Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
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