"You do not suffer because things are impermanent.……" — Nhat Hanh
"You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent."
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461 Quotes by Nhat Hanh
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Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to…
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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others,…
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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we…
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even…
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind…
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In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing…
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You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your…
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We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
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Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding…
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Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
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With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even…
— Jean Giraudoux
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There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of…
— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
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Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss…
— Stephen Levine
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Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we…
— Jack Kornfield
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Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of…
— Stephen Batchelor
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"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
— Gautama Buddha
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For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we…
— Deepak Chopra
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely…
— K D Lang
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We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come…
— Noah Levine
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