Nhat Hanh Quotes — Page 26

Zen Master, Author

Spiritual

“If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.”

Freedom Attachment 4th Of July

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Nhat Hanh

Zen Master, Author

Creative

“If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.”

Children Compassion Irritation

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Peaceful

“If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.”

Able Peace

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Calm

“Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.”

Yoga Breathe

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Hopeful

“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 body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

Dream Practice Cells

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Philosophical

“Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"”

Long Important Complaining

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Creative

“The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.”

World Accomplish

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Happy

“Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”

Helping Please

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Peaceful

“If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.”

Children Real Peace

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Philosophical

“The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.”

Joy Letting Go Mindfulness

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Creative

“The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."”

Mean Love Buddhist

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Spiritual

“In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.”

Book Sports Television

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