Nhat Hanh Quotes — Page 23

Zen Master, Author

Spiritual

“Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.”

Practice Happiness Peace

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Nhat Hanh

Zen Master, Author

Love

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.”

Children Past Buddhist

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Peaceful

“Your true home is in the here and the now.”

Home True Home

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Calm

“Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

Inspirational Breathe

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Love

“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”

Love Compassion Buddhist

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Calm

“When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”

Feet Kissing Rushing

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Creative

“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”

Jesus Baby Buddhist

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Melancholic

“Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”

Needs Suffering Sorrow

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Courageous

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”

Fighting Buddhist Anger

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Anxious

“Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.”

Heart Peace Sick

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Hopeful

“If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.”

Care Moments Future

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Creative

“Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.”

Simple Practice Mom

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