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Wisdom Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up,…
- Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.
- Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
- If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep…
- We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't…
- Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
- The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
More Wisdom Quotes
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- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
- Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine