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You Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- 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…
- You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment...
- You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it…
- Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment.…
- You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of…
- When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you;…
- Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can…
- If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because…
- 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…
- If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in…
- 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…
- Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
- If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
- If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
- Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
- Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
- Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of…
- If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the…
- If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day,…
- In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality,…
- There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions…
- To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you…
- We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat,…
- Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
- When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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